The question of bruno

‘You will go a long way to find anything better than this’ – Edward Docx. ‘There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon’s stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment’ – «Guardian». «The Question of Bruno» is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit. ‘Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing’ – «Time Out». ‘Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider, weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances’ – «Observer». ‘A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining’ – «Scotland on Sunday».