Sarajevo Marlboro

Miljenko Jergovic
Stela Tomasevic (translation)
Paperback, 195 pages
9780972869225

Sarajevo Marlboro is Miljenko Jergovic’s remarkable début collection of stories. A child of Sarajevo, Jergovic remained in the city throughout the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city’s young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs with a subterranean humour and profoundly personal vision, their offbeat lives and daily dramas in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.