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An edition of The Question of Bruno (2000)

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From inside front cover: A novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice ... Set in Chicago and Sarajevo, it is a book about the trauma of war, about how an exile makes a new life in a new land.

Some of the stories in the book have appeared, in different form, in the following publications: "Islands" in Ploughsares and Best American Short Stories, 1999; "The Life and Work of Aphonse Kauders" in TriQuarterly and, in Serbo-Croatian, in Best Yugoslav Short Stories 1990; "The Sorge Spy Ring." in TriQuarterly; "Exchange of Pleasant Words" in Granta; "A Coin" in Chicago Review; and extracts from "Blind Jozef Pronek & Dead Souls" in The New Yorker and The Baffler.

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Nan A. Talese
Language
English
Pages
244

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Subjects
bosnian americans, fiction, short stories, Social life and customs, Bosnian Americans, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Bosnia and hercegovina, fiction
People
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914, Richard Sorge, 1895-1944
Places
Chicago (Ill.), Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Times
1914, 1990s

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2001, Yuan shen chu ban she
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The Question of Bruno: Stories
July 10, 2001, Vintage
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2000, Nan A. Talese
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Table of Contents

Islands Page 1 The life and work of Alphonse Kauders Page 23 The Sorge spy ring Page 41 The accordion Page 87 Exchange of pleasant words Page 95 A coin Page 117 Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls Page 135 Imitation of Life Page 213 Acknowledgments Page 231

Edition Notes

Published by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
Doubleday is a trademark of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

Published in
New York, USA, London, UK, Toronto, Canada, Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
2000

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813' .54 (ddc21)
Library of Congress
PS 3558. E479155 Q47 2000, PS3558.E479155 Q47 2000, PS 3558 .E479155 Q47 2000

Contributors

Book Designer
Terry Karydes

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
231
Number of pages
244
Dimensions
20.8 x 14.7 x 2.3 centimeters
Weight
408 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL51647M
Internet Archive
questionofbruno00alek
ISBN 10
038549923X
ISBN 13
9780385499231
LCCN
99057519
OCLC/WorldCat
42863109
Library Thing
13946
Goodreads
531223

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We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases and then drove straight to the coast, stopping only on the verge of Sarajevo, so I could pee.
Page 3, added by Alex Voytek.

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