| Edition |
First US edition. |
| Description |
353 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"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 Stanišić'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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Stanišić, Saša, 1978- -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographical fiction.
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Novels.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Searls, Damion, translator.
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| Added Title |
Herkunft. English
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| Other Editions: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Stanišić, Saša, 1978- Where you come from London : Jonathan Cape, 2021 9781787332782 |
| ISBN |
9781951142759 (paperback) |
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1951142756 (paperback) |
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