
The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon
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.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-13
- 9781447213369
- Genre
- Topics
- War and exileSarajevo and Bosnian WarImmigrant identity
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2013)
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