Where You Come From

ISBN: 1951142756

Author: Stanisic, Sasa

Condition: New

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book AwardA Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus, and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the MonthInventive, funny and moving. -The New York Times Book ReviewTranslated from the German by Damion SearlsWinner of the German Book Prize, Saa Staniics inventive and surprising novel 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 boys father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saa Staniics 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 thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memories, in coincidences, in choices, and in a dragons den. Translated by Damion Searls, its 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.