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Book of My Lives
Contributor(s): Hemon, Aleksandar (Author)
ISBN: 1250043549     ISBN-13: 9781250043542
Publisher: Picador USA
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages
 
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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

Contributor Bio(s): Hemon, Aleksandar: - Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.