Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he had tried to save and whose fate he is desperate to discover.
"Aleksandar spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Višegrad. When the shadow of war spreads to Višegrad, Aleksandar goes with his family to Germany. Years later, he returns to find out what became of the life he left behind."
"Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he had tried to save and whose fate he is desperate to discover."@en
"Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he had tried to save and whose fate he is desperate to discover."
"Een fantasierijke jongen vertelt over een jeugd in Bosnisch Joegoslavië, de Balkanoorlog van de jaren negentig en zijn vlucht naar Duitsland."
"A cross between Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - a fresh, poignant and very funny novel about a young child caught up in the Bosnian conflict."@en
"Als der Bürgerkrieg in den 90er Jahren Bosnien heimsucht, flieht der junge Aleksandar mit seinen Eltern in den Westen. Rastlos neugierig erobert er sich das fremde Deutschland und erzählt mit unbändiger Lust die irrwitzigen Geschichten von damals, von der großen Familie und den kuriosen Begebenheiten im kleinen Viegrad. Aleksandar fabuliert sich die Angst weg und "die Zeit, als alles gut war" wieder herbei. Aleksandar wächst in der kleinen bosnischen Stadt Vi egrad auf. Sein größtes Talent ist das Erfinden von Geschichten: Er denkt gar nicht daran, sich an die Themen der Schulaufsätze zu halten, viel zu verrückt sind die Erntefeste bei seinen Urgroßeltern, viel zu packend die Amokläufe betrogener Ehemänner und viel zu unglaublich die Geständnisse des Flusses Drina. Als der Krieg mit grausamer Wucht über Vi egrad hereinbricht, hält die Welt, wie Aleksandar sie kannte, der Gewalt nicht stand, und die Familie muss fliehen. In der Fremde eines westlichen Landes erweist sich Aleksandars Fabulierlust als lebenswichtig: Denn so gelingt es ihm, sich an diesem merkwürdigen Ort namens Deutschland zurechtzufinden und sich eine Heimat zu erzählen. Seinen Opa konnte er damals nicht wieder lebendig zaubern, jetzt hat er einen Zauberstab, der tatsächlich funktioniert: seine Phantasie holt das Verlorene wieder zurück. Als der erwachsene Aleksandar in die Stadt seiner Kindheit zurückkehrt, muss sich allerdings erst zeigen, ob seine Fabulierkunst auch der Nachkriegsrealität Bosniens standhält. Mit "Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert" hat Saa Staniic einen überbordenden, verschwenderischen, burlesken und tragikomischen Roman über eine außergewöhnliche Kindheit unter außergewöhnlichen Umständen geschrieben, über den brutalen Verlust des Vertrauten und über das unzerstörbare Vertrauen in das Erzählen."
"Autobiographischer Roman über ein Kind, das vor dem Bosnienkrieg in Višegrad gelebt hat und durch seine Fabulierkunst aufgefallen ist, dann mit seiner Familie fliehen und sich in Deutschland zurechtfinden muss. Als erwachsener Mann kehrt er in die Stadt seiner Kindheit zurück."
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