Sasa Stanisic

Damion Searls

A triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound... it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read.

Stanišic is a poet and revolutionary who has found his true home in language.

Wonderfully inventive and impressive.

Offensively gifted... Some kind of freak genius.

Stanišic is an exceptionally talented, impish and caring writer who has walked the edge of the abyss.

It is easy to say that a book is important; this one - especially now, especially here - is of great importance.

[A] brilliant novel... wonderfully alive, vital in its depiction of family life... The book's conclusion...is a bravura, sustained and singular piece of writing that bursts with wit, heart and empathy... all of which land deftly in Damion Searl's excellent translation.

Where You Come From...is most powerful in its gentle undoing of what learning a new dialect might seem... Stanìšic's prose is calm, persuasively so.

Winner of the German Book Prize

A powerful exploration of identity and belonging, Where You Come From is the major new novel from internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Saša Stanišic 
 
Saša Stanišic's Where You Come From is a novel about a village where only thirteen people remain, a country that no longer exists, a shattered family that is his own. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Stanišic traces a family's escape during the conflict in Yugoslavia, and the years that followed as they built a life in Germany. As he explores what it means to be European today, he examines how it feels to learn a new language, to find new friends and new jobs, and to build an identity between countries and cultures. 
 
 
Translated by Damion Searls, Where You Come From is about homelands, both remembered and imagined. A book that bends form and genre with wit, heart, and exceptional craftsmanship 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. 
 
'Wonderfully inventive and impressive.' - Guardian

Sasa Stanisic

Praise for Where You Come From

A triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound... it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read.

Stanišic is a poet and revolutionary who has found his true home in language.

Wonderfully inventive and impressive.

A triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound... it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read.

Stanišic is a poet and revolutionary who has found his true home in language.

Wonderfully inventive and impressive.

A triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound... it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read.

Stanišic is a poet and revolutionary who has found his true home in language.

Wonderfully inventive and impressive.

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