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The Book of My Lives

Aleksandar Hemon

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#2414 of 3,809 books · #875 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2013).

Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was consumed by football, his adolescence by friends, movies and girls and where, as a young man, he poked at the pretensions of his beloved city with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, at twenty-seven, Hemon flew to Chicago for a month-long visit. A matter of weeks later Sarajevo was engulfed in an atrocious war. Hemon found himself an exile. He wouldn't return home for five years and, when he did, he found his city irrevocably changed.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781447213369
Topics
War and exileSarajevo and Bosnian WarImmigrant identity

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