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Saša Stanišic

Biography

Saša Stanišic

Saša Stanišić was born in Višegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel, HOW THE SOLDIER REPAIRS THE GRAMOPHONE  ,   was translated into 31 languages; BEFORE THE FEAST was a bestseller and won the renowned Leipzig Book Fair prize.

Saša Stanišic

Books by Saša Stanišic

Where You Come From
written by Saša Stanišic, translated by Damion Searls - Fiction

In 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. Saša Stanišic’s WHERE YOU COME FROM 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.