Clarendon Book Club: Where You Come From

For the first meeting of this academic year, we will discuss the book ‘Where You Come From’ by Sasa Stanisic, a novel that blends auto-fiction and fable to trace the adventures of a family’s escape during the conflict in Yugoslavia and the years of their integration in the German society. The book is hailed as a powerful exploration of identity and belonging, and a meditation on what it means to be European today, from the perspective of migrants forced to leave their home. All of these themes are, sadly, highly topical all over Europe once again.