The Question Of Bruno

In this stylistically adventurous brilliantly funny tour de forcethe most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan EnglandersAleksander Hemon writes of love and war Sarajevo and America with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassins bullet. An exiled writer working in a sandwich shop in Chicago adjusts to the absurdities of his life. Love letters from war torn Sarajevo navigate the art of getting from point A to point B without being shot. With a surefooted sense of detail and lifesaving humor Aleksandar Hemon examines the overwhelming events of history and the effect they have on individual lives. These heartrending stories bear the unmistakable mark of an important new international writer.