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Prcic, Ismet
(-shards-) Shards / Ismet Prcic - 1st ed - New York ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Black Cat : Distributed by Publisher's Group West , c2011. - 392 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes reading group guide.
"Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must 'write everything.' The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla. As Ismet's foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man -- real or imagined -- named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. Shards is a thrilling read -- a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family."--Publisher's description.
9780802170811
2011277301
016010990 Uk
Young men----Bosnia----Hercegovina----Fiction
Yugoslav war, 1991-1995----Refugees----Fiction
Immigrants----California, Southern----Fiction
Bosnian Americans----Fiction
Families----Bosnia and Hercegovina----Fiction
Psychological fiction.
War stories
Bildungsromans
PS3616.R395 / S53 2011
FIC PRC
(-shards-) Shards / Ismet Prcic - 1st ed - New York ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Black Cat : Distributed by Publisher's Group West , c2011. - 392 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes reading group guide.
"Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must 'write everything.' The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla. As Ismet's foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man -- real or imagined -- named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. Shards is a thrilling read -- a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family."--Publisher's description.
9780802170811
2011277301
016010990 Uk
Young men----Bosnia----Hercegovina----Fiction
Yugoslav war, 1991-1995----Refugees----Fiction
Immigrants----California, Southern----Fiction
Bosnian Americans----Fiction
Families----Bosnia and Hercegovina----Fiction
Psychological fiction.
War stories
Bildungsromans
PS3616.R395 / S53 2011
FIC PRC
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