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008			120726s2011 nyu 000 1 eng d
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050	0	0	_aPS3616.R395 _bS53 2011
082	0	0	_aFIC PRC
100	1		_aPrcic, Ismet
245	1	0	_a(-shards-) _c/ Ismet Prcic
246			_aShards
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Black Cat _a ; [Berkeley, Calif.] _b: Distributed by Publisher's Group West _c, c2011.
300			_a392 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_aIncludes reading group guide.
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aYoung men _z--Bosnia _z--Hercegovina _v--Fiction
650		0	_aYugoslav war, 1991-1995 _x--Refugees _v--Fiction
650		0	_aImmigrants _z--California, Southern _v--Fiction
650		0	_aBosnian Americans _v--Fiction
650		0	_aFamilies _z--Bosnia and Hercegovina _v--Fiction
650		0	_aPsychological fiction.
650		7	_aWar stories
655		7	_aBildungsromans
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