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The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon (Hardcover, 2013)
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It is a lovesong to Sarajevo and to Hemon adopted Chicago ,it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family.
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The first nonfiction book-searing, revealing, unforgettable-from one of our most acclaimed writers. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multi-ethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father, and 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. And then there is Chicago - war breaking out at home and the city fully under siege, the Hemon family fleeing Sarajevo (with their dog) and all they had ever known, applying for asylum, and Hemon himself starting his own family in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. Like Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives defies convention and expectation. It is a love-song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer - and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader - a different person, with a new way of looking at the world. For fans of Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781447210900
eBay Product ID (ePID)139726374
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Book of My Lives
AuthorAleksandar Hemon
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials
Publication Year2013
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Width160 mm
Item Weight425 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAleksandar Hemon
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- 15. Jan. 2018
Spellbinding
One of the best reads and discoveries of my reading life. I found it in a library and knew nothing of Hemon but liked the title (it is ace) and thought I'd chance it. Thereafter I was gripped. Some of the best non-fiction I've had the joy to read, love his clear style and honesty. Hemon conveys so well those moments when life is magical that you just want to leap around, but handles too tragedy so sad you don't know where to look. I live abroad and as a permanent foreigner this book spoke to parts of my life I've never felt expressed elsewhere and for that alone I'm a forever fan of Hemon. Now on my second book of his, this time it's fiction...I doubt he will disappoint.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
