How the soldier repairs the gramophone
by Saša Stanišić
For young Aleksandar - the best magician in the non-aligned states and painter of unfinished things - life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Višegrad. When the shadow of war spreads, Aleksandar goes with his family to Germany. Years later, he returns to find out what became of the life he left behind.
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German fiction, OUR Brockhaus selection, Fiction, Children and war, Magicians, Grandfathers, Fiction, war & military, Bosnia and hercegovina, fiction, Fiction, historical, Grandparents, fiction, Balkan peninsula, fiction, Memory, History, Fiction, historical, general, Germany, fiction, Fiction, generalTimes
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How the soldier repairs the gramophone
2008, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297852981 9780297852988
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Le soldat et le gramophone: roman
2008, Stock, Stock / La cosmopolite
in French
2234060206 9782234060203
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How the soldier repairs the gramophone
2008, Grove Press
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0802118666 9780802118660
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This translation originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
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Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he had tried to save and whose fate he is desperate to discover.
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