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By Ismet Prcic

Publisher: Grove Press
Pages: 400
Tags: Fiction

In this brilliantly inventive novel, memory and imagination blur as a young Bosnian man living in Southern California recalls life in his disintegrating homeland.

— Karen Holt

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