Reading Wednesday
Mar. 30th, 2022 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoJust finished Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić. It's labelled as a novel, but I would say it's more of a creatively-written memoir. Or autofiction? Is that what they're calling it these days?
It tells a nonlinear story. It's partially about the author's experience as a refugee in Germany after fleeing Yugoslavia with his family in '92, and partially about various visits back to his hometown in the 2010s. It's centred around family dynamics, creating a new life, and exploring old memories.
When I first took a look at it, I wasn't sure if I wanted to read a book like this right now. But something compelled me to read it, and I found myself very absorbed in it. It was very engaging.
I find it difficult to judge or describe my response to books like this - it's about a specific person's life, how could I make an evaluation of that? But I definitely loved the way it was written; it was hard to put down. It had a very thoughtful quality to it. And the nonlinear way of telling things suited the nature of memory, the way things aren't always solidly defined and might not have been how it actually happened - it came off fitting the book rather than pretentious. I want to read some of this guy's other work now. The library has one of them; it looks more like typical fiction. I'm looking forward to it.
It tells a nonlinear story. It's partially about the author's experience as a refugee in Germany after fleeing Yugoslavia with his family in '92, and partially about various visits back to his hometown in the 2010s. It's centred around family dynamics, creating a new life, and exploring old memories.
When I first took a look at it, I wasn't sure if I wanted to read a book like this right now. But something compelled me to read it, and I found myself very absorbed in it. It was very engaging.
I find it difficult to judge or describe my response to books like this - it's about a specific person's life, how could I make an evaluation of that? But I definitely loved the way it was written; it was hard to put down. It had a very thoughtful quality to it. And the nonlinear way of telling things suited the nature of memory, the way things aren't always solidly defined and might not have been how it actually happened - it came off fitting the book rather than pretentious. I want to read some of this guy's other work now. The library has one of them; it looks more like typical fiction. I'm looking forward to it.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.