Question of Bruno

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force—the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander''s—Aleksandar Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.

A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin''s bullet. An exiled writer, working in a s...