From the internationally acclaimed author of BEFORE THE FEAST and HOW THE SOLDIER REPAIRS THE GRAMOPHONE comes a prize-winning novel that asks: What makes us who we are?

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.

Blending autofiction, fable and choose-your-own-adventure, WHERE YOU COME FROM is set in a village where only 13 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.