As her dementia worsens, SašaĪnd his parents return to Bosnia to say goodbye and visit Oskorusa. Is fascinated by Oskorusa, the small mountainous town where she lived as a young woman. His grandmother, a steely presence, is the beating heart of the book, and Saša , living in Germany, doles out short vignettes of his family’s life in Tito-era Yugoslavia, their post–Balkan War asylum in Germany, and reunions in present-day Bosnia Herzegovina. ( How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) composes a digressive shape-shifting self-portrait with some mesmerizing elements. In this sardonic if uneven novel, Stanišić
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