Aleksandar Hemon - Böcker

From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was cons...

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For Aleksandar Hemon, football is more than a sport. It certainly is not 'exercise'. It is the beautiful game - and never more so than in The Matters of Life, Death, and More. From the celebrated author of The World and All That It Holds.In this v...

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'A raucous, hilarious book . . . deadly funny.' Chicago Magazine Script 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 her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Tee...

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The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project.Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet...

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Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers. In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada of th...

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Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada - of ...

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Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur Genius Award-winner Hemon, the Best European Fiction series offers a window into what's happening in literary scenes throughout Europe.

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The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardi...

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Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-lang...

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The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardi...

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Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read. Time

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Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Sc...

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2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors....

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Hemon earned his reputation--and his MacArthur "genius grant"--for his short stories, and he returns to the form with a powerful collection of linked stories that stands with "The Lazarus Project" as the best work of his celebr...

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Hemons neuer Band sind eigentlich zwei in einem, zusammengebracht in einem Wendebuch: Die Geschichte von Hemons Eltern, ihrer Immigration von Sarajewo nach Kanada und ein Buch mit kurzen Erinnerungen an die Familiengeschichte des Autors, an Freund...

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'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...

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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 üb...

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«Aleksandar Hemon ist, ziemlich sicher, der Gröÿte seiner Autoren-Generation.» Colum McCannHemons neuer Band sind eigentlich zwei in einem, zusammengebracht in einem Wendebuch: Die Geschichte von Hemons Eltern, ihrer Immigration von Sarajewo n...

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Der lang erwartete neue Roman von Aleksandar HemonAls Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand an einem Junitag des Jahres 1914 in Sarajevo eintrifft, ist Rafael Pinto damit beschÿftigt, hinter dem Tresen der Apotheke, die er von seinem Vater geerbt hat, Krÿut...

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Ein virtuos erzÿhlter Roadtrip zu den eigenen Wurzeln¿1908 wird in Chicago der junge osteuropÿische Einwanderer Lazarus Averbuch, ein vermeintlicher Anarchist, vom Polizeiprÿsidenten aus nÿchster Nÿhe erschossen. Hundert Jahre spÿter will d...

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"Nowhere Man" är Beatleslåten som Jozef Pronek och hans kamrater i bandet Bube (=serbokroatiska för Beatles) spelar på skoldanserna och så småningom på studentklubben Kuk i Sarajevo. Bube eftersom KGB inte skulle gå hem i väst och FBI (Fucking Boy...

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Aleksandar Hemons debutbok består av en kvasivetenskaplig avhandling om mästerspionen i Tokyo under andra världskriget Richard Sorge*, redogörelser för leksakerna som Aleksandars pappa hade med sig hem från sina många mystiska resor en grå bil (Vo...

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