Book of My Lives by Hemon, Aleksandar

Book of My Lives

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A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man's life is about American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. At the age of twenty-seven, Hemon journeyed to Chicago--a trip that would mark the beginning of another life, this time in the United States. There, he watched from afar as war broke out in Bosnia, his parents and sister fleeing, and Hemon himself unable to return.

Yet this, his first book of nonfiction, is much more than a memoir of these experiences. At once a love song to two cities and a paean to the bonds of family, The Book of My Lives is a singular work of passion, built on fierce intelligence, unspeakable tragedies, and sharp insight. Like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader when you finish--and a different person, with a new way of looking at the world.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781250043542


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2014 pg. 28
New York Review of Books 12/04/2014 pg. 43

About the Author
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, and Love and Obstacles. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, and, most recently, a 2012 USA Fellowship. He lives in Chicago.

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