A Theft of Style

The Question of Bruno, by Aleksandar Hemon (Doubleday, 240 pp., $22.95)

I MAGINE you are handed a work entitled “The Transformation,” written by a young Czech author who has immigrated to the United States. The story is an account of an obscure man, Jakob H., who awakens one morning to find that during the night he has been transformed into a giant firefly.

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The Question of Bruno, by Aleksandar Hemon (Doubleday, 240 pp., $22.95)

I MAGINE you are handed a work entitled “The Transformation,” written by a young Czech author who has immigrated to the United States. The story is an account of an obscure man, Jakob H., who awakens one morning to find that during the night he has been transformed into a giant firefly.