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Sarajevo Marlboro

Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable debut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro - winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize - earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs with a subterranean humor and profoundly personal vision. Their offbeat lives and daily dramas in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 195 pages

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