How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

"A brilliant debut novel" about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times).

For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko's stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers i...