"The Question of Bruno" is set in Chicago and Bosnia. It is a book about the desolation of war, and how an exile makes a new life in a new land. Its themes range from the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand to the art of dodging sniper fire in a modern city under siege; from the Sarajevo Olympics to the Napoleonic Wars. Whether Hemon is writing of a small boy in communist Yugoslavia who believes his father is a spy, or of a Bosnian immigrant in America sacked from a diner for an inability to distinguish between romaine and iceberg lettuce, he is both painfully funny and heartbreakingly sad. He writes with a wit and elegance and lightness of touch that will ensure him a place alongside Nabokov and Kundera.
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### Review
'You will go a long way to find anything better than this' Edward Docx 'There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon's stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment' Guardian 'Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider, weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances' Observer 'A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining' Scotland on Sunday 'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out
### About the Author
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the prize-winning The Lazarus Project, as well as Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno, and most recently The Book of My Lives. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon has lived in Chicago since 1992, and wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur foundation in 2004.
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"The Question of Bruno" is set in Chicago and Bosnia. It is a book about the desolation of war, and how an exile makes a new life in a new land. Its themes range from the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand to the art of dodging sniper fire in a modern city under siege; from the Sarajevo Olympics to the Napoleonic Wars. Whether Hemon is writing of a small boy in communist Yugoslavia who believes his father is a spy, or of a Bosnian immigrant in America sacked from a diner for an inability to distinguish between romaine and iceberg lettuce, he is both painfully funny and heartbreakingly sad. He writes with a wit and elegance and lightness of touch that will ensure him a place alongside Nabokov and Kundera. ** ### Review 'You will go a long way to find anything better than this' Edward Docx 'There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon's stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment' Guardian 'Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider, weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances' Observer 'A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining' Scotland on Sunday 'Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing' Time Out ### About the Author Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the prize-winning The Lazarus Project, as well as Nowhere Man and The Question of Bruno, and most recently The Book of My Lives. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon has lived in Chicago since 1992, and wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 'genius grant' from the MacArthur foundation in 2004.