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Title: Good book, outrageous translation
Review: While this book does bring Jergovic to an English-speaking world, the translation couldn't drift any further from the original Bosnian/Croatian. After reading the original and this translation in parallel, it is immediately clear that while Tomasevic has created a compelling and well-articulated world, it is nothing like that of the original texts. The liberties that have been taken have totally rejected Jergovic's sentence structure, and do little or nothing to replicate any kind of "tone," "feel," or "mood" -- words that are frequently tossed about in justifying this type of translation. Unfortunately, I think it's the only English version there is.Sorry, Amazon doesn't allow the Croatian characters for the names...
