SASA STANISIC
Wednesday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m.

A writer who turns thirty this year, Sasa Stanisic fled his Bosnian homeland as a teenager for sanctuary in Germany. In his astounding debut novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Grove), he fictionally casts that story into many. "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone is the story of a childhood in Visegrad, a city on the Drina, in which Christians, Muslims, Bosnians and Serbs are living together in a peaceful world—until politics, war, and unfathomable powers destroy it. How, in this book, Sasa Stanisic writes the stories of this city with such an incredible passion for invention and for storytelling, and how a short time later he allows this city to be devoured, at first by tiny details, then by hate, blood, and war—this is great art." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. "A great rattlebag of a book that's funny and heartfelt and brazen and true ... What a welcome voice rising up amongst the great voices." - Colum McCann.

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