Powerful, vivid and funny, Stanisic's devastating tale shows the calamity of war through the eye's of the young Bosnian refugee Aleksandar Krsmanoviae. The boy keeps holds onto his grandfather Slavko's credo "the most valuable gift of all is invention, imagination is your greatest wealth, remembering life in Bosnia before it was town apart by ethnic violence.  (BOS32, $24.00)

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