Description: Powerful, vivid, and devastating, this novel captures the catastrophe of war through a child's eyes and shows how words have the ability to mend what is broken and resurrect what is lost.
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Praise for How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
"A bold, questing work of art."--Los Angeles Times
"Funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written."--The Seattle Times
"Wildly inventive . . . It rages rough and broad and joyful."--San Francisco Chronicle
"The magic of storytelling lies at the heart of Sasa Stanisic's sensational debut. . . . A book that will dominate the discourse on how children experience war for a long time to come."--Foreign Policy
"Poignant and hauntingly beautiful."--The Village Voice
"Will convert skeptics with the sheer force of its emotional power."--The Oregonian
"An astonishing accomplishment . . . Enthralling, something you can't put down."--Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
"Dazzling . . . A novel rich with experience and imagination."--Kirkus Reviews