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"Vast, generous-spirited story of family across the face of the 20th century in the turbulent Balkans . . . There is beauty aplenty, and ample monstrosity, in Jergovi s account, as well as many moments of mystery: a beekeeper s coded journal, the alpenglow that surrounds Sarajevo as surely as a besieging army, the living torment that is existence, all come under Jergovi s empathetic eye. A masterwork of modern European letters that should earn the author a wide readership outside his homeland." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Miljenko Jergovi has lived as a foreigner in Zagreb since 1993, where, as narrator, he channels stories of Sarajevo and the ways in which the city has embodied the 20th century s major flash points religious intolerance, virulent nationalism, and world wars . . . Jergovi devotes the first section to quotidian ancestral history, but even here the scope widens with soaring chapters on the geopolitical changes after WWII . . . dozens of shimmering vignettes build to the hallucinatory novella-length capstone Sarajevo Dogs . . . [Jergovi s] astonishing project offers endless rewards." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A superb English translation . . . Kin

Who reads Kin; Trans. By Russell Scott Valentino?

Author

Miljenko Jergovic, Russell Scott Valentino

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781939810526

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14