Books by Aleksandar Hemon (3)
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Nowhere Man : The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
The author of the celebrated debut, "The Question of Bruno, " returns with the engrossing and hilarious mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing hero, Jozef Pronek.
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The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by football, by resentment of his younger sister, and by occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father; and where a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. Yet this is not really a memoir. It is a lovesong to Sarajevo and to Hemon's adopted Chicago; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play football - and not for the exer... continue
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the lazarus project by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
‘Prose this powerful could wake the dead’ – Observer Crossing a century of Eastern European history, The Lazarus Project is a profound exploration of alienation and the immigrant experience from Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds. On 2 March 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga, was left alone and b... continue