Sasa Stanisic's "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone" is of the latter variety. It's only in its disorganization that its true meaning can be found. The book revolves around Aleksandar Krsmanovic, a young boy living in Visegrad, Yugoslavia/5(32). Buy a cheap copy of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone book by Saša Stanišić. The hardcover publication of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned Free Shipping on all orders over $Cited by: 1. "Stanisic's debut novel How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone will convert skeptics with the sheer force of its emotional power Stanisic's perfectly chosen observations refract and amplify the horrifying, maddening surroundings, heightening both ends of the emotional spectrum, creating a story that, like war itself, is too large and chaotic to ever leave simply."/5(33).
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone is a modern variation on that theme, pulling back the curtains on the horrors of the Balkan conflicts in the s. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, however, this book is about the devastating effects that wars have on the landless and powerless - and sometimes faceless and voiceless - members of a society. Saša Stanišić's debut novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (in marvelous English translation by Anthea Bell - I couldn't get my hands on a German version), is full of these fabulous hairpin turns between the grandiose and the everyday - which makes up much of its (substantial) charm. It's not a long novel, less than There's something to be said for the linear story, a tale that has a clear beginning, middle, and end, and progesses from one to the next with certainty. However, some stories don't fit into the linear format; rather, they can be understood only in circular form. Sasa Stanisic's "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone" is of the latter variety.
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone tags: bake, french, humor, self-deprecating, serbian, to-love 4 likes. Saša Stanišić’s debut novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (in marvelous English translation by Anthea Bell – I couldn’t get my hands on a German version), is full of these fabulous hairpin turns between the grandiose and the everyday – which makes up much of its (substantial) charm. It’s not a long novel, less than pages, but I’ve been reading it for a while now – mostly five pages at a time on the bus back from giving morning English classes. Saša Stanišić: Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) Well, it is certainly cute and clever. This book has been very much hyped (translated into 32 languages, the publisher proclaims) and it certainly is quite a good novel but not, I feel, that good. It owes a certain amount to Ivo Andrić and, indeed, he does get a couple of mentions.
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