Little Bastards in Springtime

Rudolph, Katja

ISBN 10: 1443408867 / ISBN 13: 9781443408868

Published by Harpercollins Publishers, 2014

About this Item

A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Inscribed and dated in year of publication by author to previous owner on title page. Some wrinkles on edges of d/j. Small bump and a bit of soiling on bottom edge of text block. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches; 416 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 163469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Little Bastards in Springtime
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443408867
• ISBN 13: 9781443408868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

It's spring 1992. Jevrem Andric is eleven years old, and brutal civil war is erupting in Sarajevo. At first it's just boring, as kids shut in apartments run out of ways to entertain themselves. A few weeks later, boredom is a luxury. Hell has arrived. They are trapped and face starvation and death. Jevrem's only comfort is his beloved grandmother, a tough World War II partisan who has seen everything there is to see in war. Five years later, what's left of his family has immigrated to Toronto, where spring feels like mid-winter, his grandmother is broken and ill, and sixteen-year-old Jevrem is on a rampage, drinking, doing drugs and breaking into houses with his small gang of Yugoslav friends.

When his grandmother dies, he faces a moral reckoning that compels him to try, in his own warped way, to do some good in the world-the consequences be damned. Rudolph's voice is searing, tender, at times hallucinatory, as she creates a brilliant portrait of a boy's fight for emotional survival and a family's attempt to find peace in a new land.

About the Author

KATJA RUDOLPH was born in England to German parents, and she immigrated to Canada with her family in 1973. She holds an MPhil from King's College, Cambridge, in social and political science, and a PhD from the University of Toronto in theory and policy studies. She has worked as a magazine editor and a graphic designer, and she is working on her third novel. She currently lives near Toronto with her partner and young daughter.

WEB: KATJARUDOLPH.COM

TWITTER: @KATJARUDOLPH