Jergovic, Miljenko.  <br/><br/>
MAMA LEONE 
/Translated from the Croatian by David Williams. 
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 - New York  Archipelago Books  2012/01/01 
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<br/><br/> 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 fractured worlds bleary-eyed from the unmagnificence of growing up. Yet for every familial betrayal and diminished expectation, every love and home(land) irretrievably lost, every terror and worst fear realized, Jergovic’s characters never surrender the promise of redemption being but a lone kiss or winning bingo card away. As readers we wander the book’s rhapsodic literary rooms, and as a myriad of unforgettable human voices call out to us, startled, across oceans and continents, we recognize them as our own. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781935744320 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction.<br/>Fiction Collection.<br/>Bosnian Fiction.<br/>Yugoslav War (1991-1995).<br/>Short stories, Bosnian.<br/>Jergović, Miljenko, 1966.<br/>Bosnian writer.<br/>Williams, David 1976- Translator.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FC  / JER/MA