How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
By Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell (Translator)
(Grove Press, Hardcover, 9780802118660, 304pp.)
Publication Date: June 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Literary
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2008 Indie Next List“A child matures in Bosnia as war comes clanking down his street and he tries to make sense of the good and the bad in the world through stories. A bold novel, and timely.”
-- Russ Lawrence, Chapter One Book Store, Inc., Hamilton
Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Indie Next List Highlights 2008
“A child matures in Bosnia as war comes clanking down his street and he tries to make sense of the good and the bad in the world through stories. A bold novel, and timely.”
-- Russ Lawrence, Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton, MT
Description
Powerful, vivid, and devastating, this novel captures the catastrophe of war through a child's eyes and shows how words have the ability to mend what is broken and resurrect what is lost.
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