.png "Return to Catalog Home")
Aleksandar Hemon
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
168, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is Aleksandar Hemon at his most intimate and most urgent, the book he was literally born to write: the stories of his parents, of his own arrival in this world, of dislocation and immigration"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
336 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father; a young man's life is about poking at elder pretensions with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out and the city comes under...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--
