How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

By Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell (Translator)
(Grove Press, Paperback, 9780802144225, 345pp.)

Publication Date: May 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover

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


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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.



Praise For How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“A bold, questing work of art.”—Los Angeles Times

“Funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written.”—The Seattle Times

“Wildly inventive . . . It rages rough and broad and joyful.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“The magic of storytelling lies at the heart of Saša Stanišic’s sensational debut. . . . A book that will dominate the discourse on how children experience war for a long time to come.”—Foreign Policy

“Poignant and hauntingly beautiful.”—The Village Voice

“Will convert skeptics with the sheer force of its emotional power.”—The Oregonian

“An astonishing accomplishment . . . Enthralling, something you can’t put down.”—Deseret News(Salt Lake City)

“Dazzling . . . A novel rich with experience and imagination.”—Kirkus Reviews

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