{"product_id":"sarajevo-marlboro","title":"Sarajevo Marlboro","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Poetic and moving... of the many books written on Bosnia, this collection of stories is perhaps the best.\"-Slavenka Drakulic´\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sarajevo Marlboro' is Miljenko Jergovic´'s remarkable debut collection of stories. Jergovic´ is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city throughout the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp -understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs with a subterranean humor and profoundly personal vision. Their offbeat lives and daily -dramas play out in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiljenko Jergovic was born in Sarajevo in 1966. A poet and journalist, he writes for the daily 'Oslobodjenje' newspaper. He has written another collection of stories as well as two novels: 'Buick Riviera' and 'Mama Leone'. His work has been translated extensively throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStela Tomasevic (Translator) was born in Belgrade in 1963. She studied literature at the University of East -Anglia. She has translated numerous works of nonfiction from the Serbo-Croatian and from the French. She currently works for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former -Yugoslavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmmiel Alcalay (Introduction) is a scholar, critic, trans-lator and poet. In his own words, \"My immersion in a -diversity of languages and cultures has shaped and informed my place within American culture. I have come to see myself as a conveyor of ideas, texts, histories, cultural encounters and narrative points of view that, for a variety of reasons, have not gotten the attention they merit.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780972869225\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miljenko Jergovic, Stela Tomassevic, Ammiel Alcalay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display:none\"\u003e225 9225 69225 869225\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Batner Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934314791000,"sku":"9780972869225","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/7564\/3992\/files\/9780972869225.jpg?v=1775056230","url":"https:\/\/batnerbookstore.com\/products\/sarajevo-marlboro","provider":"Batner Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}