Yet Prcic's sensibility is at once brutally and tenderly comic. This is writing fed by skill, inertia, horror, and sorrow, a survivor's story of triumph and guilt.
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Shards is an original work of art, brutal and honest, and absolutely unforgettable."-Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air Prcic captures the insanity of war and its unceasing aftermath."- Publishers Weekly "Ismet Prcic's prose is a gleaming pinball kept in inexhaustible play, kinetically suspended in time and space, endlessly flung away from its inevitable ending, colliding with memory and invention. Prcic has pieced together a young man's story from the torn and exploded remains of his former life, and the sheer power of his language leaves the reader shaken."-Shelf Awareness "Ismet Prcic has taken apart the complexities of war, love, family and home and scattered them across a novel that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Brimming with scraps of memory, regrets, and rationalizations, Shards leaves an indelible scar on the reader's imagination. The writing is packed with one original metaphor after another, language that's almost drunk with colorful, startling images. Tight, glorious little tales-within-tales abound, rattled off with a quick, artless naturalism. With verbal glee, Prcic serves up a darkly comic vision of the terrors and misunderstandings of immigration. Shards is a thrilling read-a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family. When Mustafa's story begins to overshadow Ismet's new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. As Ismet's foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man-real or imagined-named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must write everything." The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet's childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world.
Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California.You can contact the author at or on Twitter. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012.
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