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A great mixture of the novel and memoir forms. A young Bosnian called Ismet Prcic leaves his war torn country to live in California where a doctor advises him to write everything down to help him cope with his problems settling down there - this is the memoir part. The novel focuses on his life growing up in Bosnia, family problems and the eventual family breakup. It is also a really heartbreaking study of the horrors of war and the resulting shell shock. It also deals with his involvement in a drama group in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina where the author is from and how they get permission to visit a drama group in Scotland where some of the troup plan to escape. Ismet ends back in Croatia before eventually getting to California. Although it jumps back and forth in time and confuses by Ismet apparently morphing into Mustafa (His name is Meat in the Apache unit of the army) the book is brilliantly written and really entertaining.


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Shards A Novel Ismet Prcic 9780802170811 Books Reviews

Read this book!
Very vell presented story or memoir. It shaws how war can quickly change people against each other. Brothers yesterday,enemies today.He made it, he was lucky. Very good reading!
Shards is a long, choppy and disjointed memoir style of a writing that attempts to record the psychotic behaviors and lives of a Bosnian young person and his family during and after the Civil wars that tore apart Yuoglavia in the latter part of the 20th century. the reader is left with the chore of researching who was who during these times which distracted from any attempt to understand events occurring throughout the sections of the book that were disconnected in time and place. There is nothing redeeming about the story of the conflicts that hasn't been written about before by other people. The author does have an eloquence about the way he can record the mind of his characters as they experience a variety of lifes events. But, this virtue is lost in extending the length of an already lengthy telling.
Delicious voice and wit, use of language. Nutritious Solid underpinnings, an important story told with depth and breadth of insight. Engaging all the way through. Needs some judicious minor editing to avoid losing momentum in the middle, always a problem with real life--even managed in fiction--because life is comprised of both rapids and eddies. I look forward to more, more, more....Kudos to Ismet!
This book is full of memories of battle torn Bosnia. The author keeps the reader's attention narrating events through the eyes of two characters Ismet himself, and Mustafa, an imaginary character. This book took me to Bosnia, made me sad and angry, took me away from all of that to find a young man who survived, heart and gifts intact.
I purchased this book for one of my college courses and it is phenomenal. I had the opportunity to meet Ismet Prcic and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. He's a very charismatic and fun person; his charisma is evident throughout his work. He weaves a brilliant story, one the reader can get lost in. It starts off a little slow, and perhaps his style is an acquired taste, but it is in my Top 5 favorite novels because it is absolutely brilliant. I highly HIGHLY recommend this novel to everyone that I know. I can't wait to read his next novel (if he ever decides to finish and publish it, anyway...).
SHARDS has received numerous awards this year, including best first novel from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. This is one of the most remarkable novels I have ever read. Don't be intimidated by the fragmentary aspects of the novel, because when the topic is war, murder and hatred, perhaps the only way to explore these terrible themes is by breaking the story literally into shards. A remarkable literary debut.
A great mixture of the novel and memoir forms. A young Bosnian called Ismet Prcic leaves his war torn country to live in California where a doctor advises him to write everything down to help him cope with his problems settling down there - this is the memoir part. The novel focuses on his life growing up in Bosnia, family problems and the eventual family breakup. It is also a really heartbreaking study of the horrors of war and the resulting shell shock. It also deals with his involvement in a drama group in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina where the author is from and how they get permission to visit a drama group in Scotland where some of the troup plan to escape. Ismet ends back in Croatia before eventually getting to California. Although it jumps back and forth in time and confuses by Ismet apparently morphing into Mustafa (His name is Meat in the Apache unit of the army) the book is brilliantly written and really entertaining.