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Josip Novakovich's Vignettes offers a wide-ranging look at his life, including his youth in hometown Daruvar, Croatia, where he attended school in a castle on a hill with barrels of whites and reds stored in the basement, ""my peers and I learned the basics of math, grammar, history, and literature, somewhat dizzy and fumigated in wine vapors that seeped upward through the oiled oak floors.""​ Over the course of seventeen short stories, Novakovich traces his relationship with wine: ""Wine may have a lot to do with my interest in literature, or it may be the other way around-I am not sure which came first, those vapors, or the stories involving wine? And so, a bit of wine, in a small glass, a bit of truth, in a few lines.""​

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"""In their delivery and in total these short pieces delight us with the prowess of a writer whose idiom traverses genres and borders. The elixir is a unifying force that connects us to history and place, soberingly poignant and beautiful. Memorable and energized. Have a drink, have two, and join me in raising a glass to this casque of delicious celebration of a writer's life and say, Salud!"" - Author, Virgil Suarez ""Vignettes is like a complex wine: difficult to categorize and entirely easy to enjoy. - Midwest Book Review ""Drinking a Château Margaux Grand Cru out of a coffee cup, adolescent initiation into the world of alcohol, exorcism around a fire in a one-room house, a funeral that would not be out of place in Rabelais' world: these are part of what make Josip Novakovich's Vignettes unforgettable. In turn serious, ironic, irreverent, with a touch of the absurd, it is an instructive and delightful read.""- Author, Vinod Busjeet"

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Josip Novakovich has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award, and in 2013 he was a Man Booker International Award finalist. He teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal.

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