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020			_a9781935744320
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aFC _bJER/MA
100			_aJergovic, Miljenko.
245			_aMAMA LEONE _c/Translated from the Croatian by David Williams.
250			_a1
260			_aNew York _bArchipelago Books _c2012/01/01
300			_g351
500			_aWritten 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.
650			_aFiction.
650			_aFiction Collection.
650			_aBosnian Fiction.
650			_aYugoslav War (1991-1995).
650			_aShort stories, Bosnian.
650			_aJergović, Miljenko, 1966.
650			_aBosnian writer.
650			_aWilliams, David 1976- Translator.
700			_aWilliams, David (tr.)
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