{"product_id":"where-you-come-from-paperback","title":"Where You Come from - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSasa Stanisic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy's father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Sasa Stanisic's \u003cem\u003eWhere You Come From\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, \u003cem\u003eWhere You Come From\u003c\/em\u003e is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memories, in coincidences, in choices, and in a dragons' den. Translated by Damion Searls, it's a novel about homelands, both remembered and imagined, lost and found. A book that playfully twists form and genre with wit and heart to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasa Stanisic\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Visegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eHow the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, was translated into thirty-one languages; \u003ci\u003eBefore the Feast\u003c\/i\u003e was a bestseller and won the renowned Leipzig Book Fair Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inkblots\u003c\/i\u003e, a history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47476934738141,"sku":"9781951142759","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/n2BzchfSFN9781951142759.webp?v=1771752427","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/where-you-come-from-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}