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Ukulele jam
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- Book Synopsis
- Refugees are at the forefront of modern experience and in Ukulele Jam: Miki, a Croatian teenager, and his family escaping the Yugoslav war. Their life in a Croatian refugee camp is turned on its head when war breaks out between Croatia and Bosnia and friends face becoming enemies. Miki wants to emigrate to Sweden with his friends but his parents can't face leaving their old life in Bosnia. Based on his own experiences, Alen Meskovic has written a novel by turns humorous and tragic. His novel is lively, poetic, raw, affecting and very funny, all the while depicting a European tragedy whose consequences are still with us today. Its subject and its resonant style have made Ukulele Jam a European success. It has been translated into German, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovenian, and is being developed as a film in Germany, where it is also a long-running theatre production.
- About The Author
- Alen Meškovic was born in Bosnia in 1977, and his own life is similar to Miki's: he lived in a refugee camp, his mother died in a Serb prison, while his father and older brother were imprisoned by the Serbs in the war. Alen arrived in Denmark in 1994 unable to speak Danish. In 2007 he contributed to Gyldendal's anthology Nye stemmer (New Voices). His first publication was the widely acclaimed collection of poems Første gang tilbage (First time back) (2009). The book earned him the Erik Hoffmeyer Prize the same year. Published in September 2011, Ukulele-jam (Ukulele Jam) is Meškovic's first novel. In May 2012, he received a 3-year working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation for Ukulele Jam. A sequel to Ukulele Jam has recently been published in Denmark.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781781723425
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Seren, (19 March 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 485 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 210 x 32 mm
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