The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon review
Mark Luce reviews Aleksandar Hemon's The Question of Bruno a collection set in Chicago and Sarajevo. Hemon writes in English after arriving from Sarajevo in 1992 delivering tales of war displacement espionage and assimilation with wit tenderness and strong detail. The stories mix Kafka Burroughs and Nabokov influences and culminate in striking pieces like The Large Spy Ring A Coin and Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls.
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