Nataša NuhanovicCritiques

I regret to say that I did not get on with this oddly written, impressionistic work. I found the prose vague and off-putting, and I struggled to make sense of it. Expecting a novel that would actually address the Siege Of Sarajevo, I was irritated by the endless fuzzy poetic rambling. The publisher misrepresented this book in the Net Galley description: “The Boy's Marble tells the story of experiencing a war through the eyes of a child.” As far as I got, there was no “story.“ This appears to be an essentially plotless work, and I can’t imagine many completing it.