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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemons masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas The World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even de...

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His language sings . . . I should not be surprised if Hemon wins the Nobel Prize at some point Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland Through shifting narration and beautifully original prose, Nowhere Man sees Aleksandar Hemon return to ...

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First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a la...

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From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction. In this elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia, Hemon's stories journey...

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Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes Guardian From the prize-winning author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles is a stunningly original collection of short fi...

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'Prose this powerful could wake the dead' - ObserverCrossing a century of Eastern European history, The Lazarus Project is a profound exploration of alienation and the immigrant experience from Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It...

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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemons masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas The epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself. As the Archduke Franz F...

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'Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes' - GuardianFrom the prize-winning author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles is a stunningly original collection of short...

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?Only the past matters, because it is the only thing that outlives everything and everyone.' This is a story of broken bones and dead souls, and of a love so strong it defeats two wars, two revolutions, two separations and two deaths. Osman, a Mus...

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'His language sings . . . I should not be surprised if Hemon wins the Nobel Prize at some point' - Giles Foden, author of The Last King of ScotlandThrough shifting narration and beautifully original prose, Nowhere Man sees Aleksandar Hemon return ...

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From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's stunning debut The Question of Bruno is a collection of beautifully told yet polically-charged short fiction.In this elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia, Hemon's stories journey ...

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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 Sarajevo In My Parents , Aleksandar Hemon tell...

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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 d...

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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 mysterie...

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The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promisedScript idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save...

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When Aleksandar Hemon and Velibor Bozovic became friends as teenagers in Sarajevo, it was, in Hemon's words, "e;pretty clear that our friendship was for life, even if we could have no notion of what lay ahead of us."e;In the coming years, ...

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As the world's eyes turn to the World Cup every four years, Aleksandar Hemon's The Matters of Life, Death, and More reminds us of a sad fact: "e;an average life seldom contains more than twenty World Cups-our games are tragically numbered.&quo...

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A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992--just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Inde...

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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself...

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From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project "e;a dazzling collection of stories ... further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English"e; (GQ). The stories of Aleksandar Hemon's Love ...

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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 sist...

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Two audiobooks in one in a flip dos-a-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a collection of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo.In My Parents, Aleksandar ...

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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 H...

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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 Sarajevo In My Parents , Aleksandar Hemon tell...

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"e;Narrator Aleksandar Mikic's enchanting narration gives voice to the interplay of romance and violence."e; - Booklist"e;The audiobook is performed in epic fashion by Bosnian actor Aleksandar Mikic, whose accents and syntax embody the...

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"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 Chronicle Joshua Levin has a reasonably comfor...

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In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love af...

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In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love af...

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The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promisedScript idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save...

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