Books by Ismet Prcic
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English
review 1: 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 focu...
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English
review 1: It is a gripping story of a young man growing up in Bosnia before and during the war and what he felt after he emigrated to California. It can be disjointed and long and sometimes his word choice seems sloppy, but given the fact that this is written in English, and it is his seco...
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English
review 1: I was not a fan of this book. I found myself skimming through a lot of it just because I wasn't interested or engaged with it. I can appreciate the risks he took with the form and use of the three different narrators. He often uses very robust and in-your-face language. He paints...
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English
review 1: My review was originally printed in the Yamhill Valley News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon. ------ Several descriptions of Ismet Prcic's "Shards" convinced me this was a novel I wouldn't want to read, just something I had to power through because it's this year's MacReads book.It ...