The Question of Bruno
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
You will go a long way to find anything better than this’ Edward Docx,,’There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon’s stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment’ “Guardian”,,”The Question of Bruno” is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose o….Read More
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