Douglas Messerli
DOUGLAS MESSERLI is a poet, fiction writer, and dramatist. He is also the publisher of Green Integer.
FICTION: When You Can't Cut Fog
By Douglas MesserliSaša Stanišić’s premiere novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, begins in a kind of mythologized Bosnian world, a place of magical-like tales—many of them emanating from the young hero’s recently dead grandfather Slavko—mixed with a humorous presentation of the collapse of Tito’s Communist rule of Yugoslavia.
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