Ismet Prcic: Shards

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This first novel follows the narrator who just happens to be named Ismet Prcic from Bosnia to America, from a radical theater group to a creative writing program.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.6	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without booms?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberg.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we need without books?
0:23.5	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.7	Today, my guest is a Bosnian American.
0:34.3	Are you a Bosnian American?
0:35.8	Yep, yep.
0:36.6	His name is Ismet Persick.
0:40.9	And for those of you who will want the book, as you surely will, that's spelled PRCIC.
0:48.2	It's a novel. It's called Shards.
0:50.8	And it's about the experience of someone who's been in Bosnia from its beginning of its
1:01.8	war, who's made an escape via an experimental theater company to the Scottish Edinburgh
1:10.0	Festival, via that eventually to America where he has the nervous
1:17.8	breakdown that is involved when you discover American culture when you've just been war-torn.
1:26.5	And the terror of America is equally great as the terror of ethnic cleansing.
1:34.8	Tell me, is this autobiographical?
1:38.7	It is, in a sense, but not really.
1:43.1	It's a fictional book.
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