Description
"In From Nowhere to Nowhere Bekim Sejranovic gives us the elegiac beauties echoing over the vanishing times and places, inviting us to reflect and at the same time to relish funky flashes of memory." --Josip Novakovich, author of April Fool's Day and Man Booker International Prize finalist Bekim Sejranovic's From Nowhere to Nowhere is a subtle yet unforgettable meditation on the factors that shape identity. The novel's unnamed narrator, raised by his grandparents and scattered to the wind from his hometown of Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, travels to Croatia and Norway, trying to reclaim a sense of self he isn't sure he ever possessed in the first place. From his days playing soccer with friends on Unity Street outside his home to Muslim funerals, his job as an interpreter for Balkan refugees, and his fractious relationships with women, a nomadic aesthetic emerges brilliantly rendering what it means to live a life from which you have always been removed.
About the Author
Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. Since 1991 he has been living in Berlin, where he works as a translator of literature and the humanitiesfrom Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian. In 200507 he translated for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Firth is a member of professional associations in Germany (VdU) and Britain (Translators Association). His best-received translations of recent years include Robert Perisic's Our Man in Iraq. Best known as a poet, Tatjana Gromaca's novel Divine Children received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Literature and the Jutarnji list Award for Novel of the Year.
Reviews
"But along with the rage and remorse is the exile's vertiginous feeling of absolute freedom, captured in those exhilarating moments when SejranoviAE "shook off the dust of memory, ruthlessly, like out of an old carpet." " Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9789533512945
Author Bekim Sejranovic
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Sandorf Passage
Publisher Sandorf Passage
Weight(grams) 322g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 20mm
About the Author
Will Firth was born in 1965 in Newcastle, Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. Since 1991 he has been living in Berlin, where he works as a translator of literature and the humanitiesfrom Russian, Macedonian, and all variants of Serbo-Croatian. In 200507 he translated for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Firth is a member of professional associations in Germany (VdU) and Britain (Translators Association). His best-received translations of recent years include Robert Perisic's Our Man in Iraq. Best known as a poet, Tatjana Gromaca's novel Divine Children received the Vladimir Nazor Award for Literature and the Jutarnji list Award for Novel of the Year.
Reviews
"But along with the rage and remorse is the exile's vertiginous feeling of absolute freedom, captured in those exhilarating moments when SejranoviAE "shook off the dust of memory, ruthlessly, like out of an old carpet." " Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9789533512945
Author Bekim Sejranovic
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Sandorf Passage
Publisher Sandorf Passage
Weight(grams) 322g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 20mm
