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“miljenko jergovic”

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  • Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah

    by Miljenko Jergovic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac, Mirza Puric ...
    From award-winning writer Miljenko Jergović—candid tales that reprise and embroider Bosnia’s rich folkloreInshallah, Madonna, Inshallah begins from a point of listening—turning up the radio, dragging a cafe chair closer to the man with the saz, dropping a record needle. In the Sarajevo of Miljenko Jergović’s childhood, folk songs permeated life. Their dusky melodies filled car rides, scored ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Sarajevo Marlboro

    by Miljenko Jergovic ...
    Translated by Stela Tomassevic ...
    Miljenko Jergovic’s remarkable début collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro – winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize – earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city’s young ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kin

    by Miljenko Jergovic ...
    Translated by Russell Scott Valentino ...
    Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision.Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Walnut Mansion

    by Miljenko Jergovic ...
    Translated by Stephen M. Dickey, Janja Pavetic-Dickey ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia’s tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tackling universal themes on a human scale, master storyteller Miljenko Jergovic traces one Yugoslavian family’s tale as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mama Leone

    by Miljenko Jergovic ...
    Translated by David Williams ...
    Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europe’s most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovic leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and hilarious invention, where the seduction of a well-told lie is worth more than a thousand prosaic truths, out into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Sarajevo Marlboro

    by Miljenko Jergović ...
    Narrated by Alexander Masters ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    Miljenko Jergović’s landmark collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, set during the siege of Sarajevo, provides a deeply personal perspective on the lives of ordinary people trapped in extraordinary circumstances. At the same time, it offers profound insight into the universality of wartime suffering.A native of Sarajevo, Jergović worked as a journalist for the weekly newspaper Nedjeljna ... Read more

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