The Question of Bruno

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A collection of stories about love, war, espionage and beekeeping The Question of Bruno is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a dazzling journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit. Aleksandar Hemon is from Sarajevo, emigrated to the United States at the beginning of the war and started writing fiction in English, his second language, two years later. His astonishing debut received huge and enormously positive coverage on hardback publication, and has sold 7000 copies to date.

Born in Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He is also the author of Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award), and a forthcoming collection of stories, Love and Obstacles. He lives in Chicago.

"'If you want to get hold of something worthwhile, you will go a long way to find anything better than this. There is something about the way that [Hernon] uses (or, perhaps, discovers) the English language that will alter the way you read' Edward Docx, Express"