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In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memories, in coincidences, in choices, and in a dragons’ den. Translated by Damion Searls, it’s a novel about homelands, both remembered and imagined, lost and found. A book that playfully twists form and genre with wit and heart to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.
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Where You Come from, Saša Stanišič
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2021
- Bindwijze
- (Paperback),
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- Titel
- Where You Come from
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Saša Stanišič
- Uitgever
- Tin House Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2021
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 364
- ISBN10
- 1951142756
- ISBN13
- 9781951142759
- Reeks
- Categorieën
- Tags
- Familie, Duitse literatuur, Hedendaagse literatuur, Duitsland, Oorlogsproza, Oorlogen, Ontsnapping, Huis, Migratie, Grootmoeder, Joegoslavië
- Eerste editie
- 2019
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Herkunft
- Beoordeling
- 4,2 van 5
- Aantekening
- In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memories, in coincidences, in choices, and in a dragons’ den. Translated by Damion Searls, it’s a novel about homelands, both remembered and imagined, lost and found. A book that playfully twists form and genre with wit and heart to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.