Aleksandar Hemon
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. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo with the family dog, leaving behind all else they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city.,And yet this is not really a memoir. ,The Book, ,of My Lives,, Hemon's first book of nonfiction, defies convention and expectation. It is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccerâ€”and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different readerâ€”a different person, with a new way of looking at the worldâ€”when you've finished. For fans of Hemon's fiction, ,The Book of My Lives ,is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time.,A ,Kirkus Reviews ,Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Writing,Essays,Biography,Biography Memoir,War,Biography,Autobiography,Short Stories,Literature,History
The Book of My Lives