a river in bosnia he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. i don't he's wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and a file of stories that were there but the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere in hungary that's hard it's hard. chance to come to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. a gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. often we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in the stony sit place with chance and lets his readers join in decision