Question of Bruno, Alexandre Hemon, 2000

A Bosnian émigré writing in Chicago, Hemon wrote this collection of short stories to express his despair and alienation during the Serbian war and the siege of Sarajevo.  Another Nabokovian influenced writer who tells tales of a diaspora and who, like Sebold, struggles with the factuality or lack of it in history.  Joseph Pronek and Dead Souls is very Pnninish while The Life and Works of Alphonse Kauders is quite modernist.  A major talent whose actual memoir turns up later in this list.