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The first book of poetry from Aleksandar Hemon, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, National Book Award finalist, and budding multi-hyphenate artist. The Future of Everything distills Aleksandar Hemon's humor and heart through life's vast mysteries and into verse. The collection is rooted in the experiences of war and the failure of America, where language and memory are the tools of investigation of the poet's position in a disintegrating wor...

1908 wird in Chicago der junge osteuropäische Einwanderer Lazarus Averbuch, ein vermeintlicher Anarchist, vom Polizeipräsidenten aus nächster Nähe erschossen. Hundert Jahre später will der bosnisch-amerikanische Schriftsteller Brik die Wahrheit über diesen angeblichen Anarchisten ans Licht bringen. Mit seinem Freund Rora macht er sich auf den Weg in die Heimat von Lazarus - ihre Reise wird zu einer Suche nach den eigenen Wurzeln. Eine lakonisc...

Aleksandar Hemons Meisterwerk.' David Mitchell Als Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand an einem Junitag des Jahres 1914 in Sarajevo eintrifft, ist Rafael Pinto damit beschäftigt, hinter dem Tresen seiner Apotheke Kräuter zu zerkleinern. Und dann explodiert die Welt. In den Schützengräben Galiziens bedeuten Träume den sicheren Tod. Der Krieg verschlingt alles, was Pinto kannte, und das Einzige, worauf er hinlebt, ist die Aufmerksamkeit von Osman, einem K...

The World and All That It Holds-in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory-showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction.As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pha...

Aleksandar Hemon is on fire." -Vanity Fair "His writing style is as vital and rewarding as ever. . . . The kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there." -San Francisco ChronicleJoshua Levin has a reasonably comfortable Chicago apartment, a mildly dysfunctional family sprinkled throughout the suburbs, a steady job teaching ESL, a devoted girlfriend who lives down the block, and a laptop full of screenplay ideas-one of which he thinks,...

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 the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective.And then...

«Aleksandar Hemon ist, ziemlich sicher, der Größte seiner Autoren-Generation.» (Colum McCann)

Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he ...

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Making of Zombie Wars, The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller, and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a ...

Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he ...

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Il narratore senza nome che unisce le varie tappe di questo singolare percorso di formazione è un adolescente sensibile e malmostoso che legge Rimbaud, scrive stucchevoli poesie e s'ingegna per trovare la volontaria cui affidare la sua verginità. Il viaggio che in "Tutto" intraprende verso la "città tentacolare, la città infinita" di Murska Sobota, investito della missione di acquistare un congelatore orizzontale e armato di un'unica pillola a...

È un'esistenza inimmaginabile fuori dai confini della letteratura quella che Hemon ci consegna in questo libro: troppo densa e straordinaria per essere declinata al singolare. Nelle sue vite la realtà esplode a ogni passo, lo sorprende, sconvolge, supera. Eppure lui la sa ricomporre in una serie di testi autobiografici riuniti secondo un'intima cronologia che li rende ancora più eloquenti e interrelati. Dalla nascita della sorella, che lo cost...

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The first nonfiction book--searing, revealing, unforgettable--from one of today's most acclaimed writers. In Sarajevo, a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multiethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father.

The first nonfiction book--searing, revealing, unforgettable--from one of today's most acclaimed writers. In Sarajevo, a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multiethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father.

Exhilaratingly astute' Sunday TimesJoshua Levin goes by many names: Jo to his girlfriend, Jackie to his family, Jonjo to his ex-marine, PTSD-suffering landlord, and Teacher Josh to Ana: the married woman with whom he has started an affair. But perhaps the greatest role Josh will play is writer and creator of Zombie Wars, one screenplay that he will finish, unless Ana's violent husband makes good on his threat to bring things to a more permanen...

The seriously funny rollercoaster ride of a novel that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised.

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This series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, with each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names. Hemon introduces a new cross-section of European fiction, and there are a few editorial changes as well. 544 pp. 14, 000 print.