The Resource ( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic
( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic
Resource Information
The item ( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cleveland Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item ( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cleveland Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must 'write everything.' The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet's foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man -- real or imagined -- named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa's story begins to overshadow Ismet's new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. Shards is a thrilling read -- a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Note
- Includes reading group guide
- Isbn
- 9780802170811
- Label
- ( --shards-- )
- Title
- ( --shards-- )
- Statement of responsibility
- Ismet Prcic
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must 'write everything.' The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet's foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man -- real or imagined -- named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa's story begins to overshadow Ismet's new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. Shards is a thrilling read -- a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Prcic, Ismet
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.R395
- LC item number
- S53 2011
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young men
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
- Immigrants
- Bosnian Americans
- Families
- Psychological fiction
- Label
- ( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic
- Note
- Includes reading group guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn707255666
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802170811
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011277301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- HA1
- System control number
- (OCoLC)707255666
- Label
- ( --shards-- ), Ismet Prcic
- Note
- Includes reading group guide
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn707255666
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802170811
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2011277301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- HA1
- System control number
- (OCoLC)707255666
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