How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

The prize-winning debut novel by the author of Before the FeastAleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Visegrad on the banks of the river Drina.When his grandfather, a master storyteller, dies ...