{"product_id":"where-you-come-from-isbn-9781951142759","title":"Where You Come From","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inventive, funny and moving.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the German by Damion Searls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the German Book Prize, Saša Stanišic’s inventive and surprising novel asks: What makes us who we are?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eWhere You Come From\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, \u003ci\u003eWhere You Come From\u003c\/i\u003e is set in a village where only thirteen 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.\"Inventive, funny and moving. . . . Damion Searls’s translation does justice to Stanišic’s dry wit and linguistic playfulness, and captures the tense undercurrents building throughout the book.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Charming. . . . This realistic portrayal of refugees will engender compassion with its humor and subtlety.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Saša Stanišic is] a Bosnian-German wunderkind whose gripping tale about a refugee family marries formal experimentation and deadpan humor amid the suffocating smoke of survivors’ guilt.\"—\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Saša Stanišic is a revolutionary who has found his true home in language.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Rolling Stone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Where You Come From\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply beautiful book, painfully so at times, on the ties that bind us: home, family, story, language. . . . a rich tapestry whose embrace shows us a little more about the world, and a little more about ourselves.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Impressive. . . . Moving and imaginative.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A confident, careening novel. . . . packs in history, legend, and current events, plus a poignant choose-your-own-adventure ending.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A novel about how stories come to be written, transmitted and often distorted, forgotten or erased. . . . Stanisic is a versatile writer and moments of acerbic wit—which recall the razor-sharp commentary of fellow Yugoslav-born author Dubravka Ugresic—are interspersed with poignant descriptions of unbelonging in Germany.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A thrilling shapeshifter of a novel.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vast and multifaceted. . . . a timely antidote to poisonous political blame-games and sneering statements about the plight of refugees.\"—\u003cb\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The idea that Saša Stanišic’s new book brings together ‘autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure’ is too hard to resist. That’s a bold array of elements to bring together; for a book like this, that addresses the legacy of war and questions of national identity, it sounds especially compelling.\"—\u003cb\u003eVol.1 Brooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Where You Come From\u003c\/i\u003e is presented in a light, appealing style. . . . keen observations and scenes, all of it going down easily in a quick, solid read.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Where You Come From\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph, funny and touching and subtly profound. As it ranges from chronicle to prose poem to folk tale, it builds a momentum that dazzles throughout. An exhilarating and powerful read.\" —\u003cb\u003eJennifer Croft, author of\u003ci\u003e Homesick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e for 'The Garden of Forking Paths,' Stanišic's tour of his lost homeland is imbued with wit and affection. He knows stories are all we have, and that some stories can't be bound by a single ending. A marvel and a delight\". —\u003cb\u003eRyan Chapman, author of \u003ci\u003eRiots I Have Known\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tender, intelligent, and brilliant. . . . a stunning novel that asks what it really means to be from somewhere, anywhere.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A shape-shifting self-portrait with some mesmerizing elements.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A playful, formally adventurous novel that freely blends truth and fiction in its meditation on homelands. . . . The novel is determined to surprise and unmoor readers, perhaps in the same way the author\/protagonist found the course of his own life surprising and disconcerting, with the author's restless imagination a constant, delightful companion.\"—\u003cb\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaša Stanišic\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Višegrad (Yugoslavia) in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eHow the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, was translated into thirty-one languages; \u003ci\u003eBefore the Feast\u003c\/i\u003e was a bestseller and won the renowned Leipzig Book Fair Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch,and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Inkblots\u003c\/i\u003e, a history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233851683045,"sku":"NP9781951142759","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781951142759.jpg?v=1767744069","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/where-you-come-from-isbn-9781951142759","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}