Saša Stanišić

With civil war ravaging Bosnia in the nineties, young Aleksandar and his parents flee to the West. He takes on unfamiliar Germany with tireless curiosity and is unrestrained in his desire to tell the bizarre stories of back home, of the big family and the curious happenings in little Višegrad. Aleksander spins a yarn to overcome his fear and to conjure up “the time when everything was good”. A wonderfully tragi-comic novel about home and the unknown and the power of story-telling.


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Saša Stanišiæ was born in 1978 in Višegrad in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and as a fourteen-year-old, fled with his family to Germany to escape the Yugoslavian civil war. Since 2004, he has been studying at the German Literary Institute in Leipzig. Stanišiæ was awarded the readers’ choice prize in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerb 2005. Since September 2006, he has been official town writer for Graz. “Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert” is his debut novel.