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The book of my lives

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 soccer'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 reader'a different person, with a new way of looking at the world'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.

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  • "'Dieses Buch ist durchdrungen von tiefster Menschlichkeit.' Jonathan Safran Foer Aleksandar Hemon gehört zu den herausragenden Autoren der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Die Erfahrungen seines Lebens, das geprägt ist von einer Kindheit im bosnischen Sarajewo, vom Verlust dieser Wurzeln und von einem zweiten Leben in der Neuen Welt, hat er nun in autobiographischen Erzählungen verarbeitet. Sie lassen ahnen, welche Bedeutung das eigene Erleben für seine Imagination spielt. An keiner Stelle verhehlt der Autor, dass Leidenschaft, Trauer oder Zorn die Motoren seines Schreibens sind; doch diese Gefühle sind immer gefiltert durch profundes Mitgefühl und scharfe Intelligenz. Aleksandar Hemon wurde 1964 als Kind einer serbischen Mutter und eines bosnischen Vaters in Sarajevo geboren. Sein Grossvater Teodor Hemon kam vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs aus der Ukraine nach Bosnien; beide Länder gehörten damals zu Österreich-Ungarn. Als Aleksandar Hemon sich 1992 im Rahmen eines Kulturaustauschs in den USA aufhielt und vom Beginn der Belagerung seiner Heimatstadt erfuhr, beschloss er, im Exil zu bleiben. Seit 1995 schreibt er auf Englisch und veröffentlicht regelmässig unter anderem in The New Yorker, Granta und The Paris Review. Sein Erzählband 'Die Sache mit Bruno' erschien 2000 in acht Ländern gleichzeitig. 2002 folgte der Roman 'Nowhere man', der für den National Book Critics Circle Award nominiert war. Beide Bücher - erschienen bei Knaus - begeisterten Publikum wie Kritik. Die MacArthur Foundation zeichnete Aleksandar Hemon 2004 mit dem 'Genius Grant' aus. Spätestens seit seinem international gefeierten Roman 'Lazarus' gehört er zu den meist beachteten Stimmen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Mit 'Lazarus' stand er in Deutschland auf der Shortlist des Internationalen Buchpreises 2009. Er lebt in Chicago."
  • "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; a young man's life is about poking at elder pretensions with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out and the city comes under siege; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo, leaving behind all they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir--Hemon's first book of nonfiction defies convention and expectation. It is a love song to two different cities; it is a paean to the bonds of family; it is an exhortation to go out and play soccer--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 person, with a new way of looking at the world.--From publisher description."
  • "Bosnian American writer Aleksandar Hemon came to Chicago in 1992 for a month-long cultural exchange program and was supposed to return to Sarajevo on May 1--the same day the city came under siege. Granted asylum in the United States as a political refugee, Hemon began writing fiction. Islands, one of his first stories written in English, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1999. An acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, and Love and Obstacles. His new book is a collection of autobiographical essays."
  • "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 soccer'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 reader'a different person, with a new way of looking at the world'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."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
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  • "The Book of my lives"
  • "Knjiga mojih življenj"@sl
  • "Knjiga mojih života"
  • "Das Buch meiner Leben"
  • "˜Dasœ Buch meiner Leben"
  • "The book of my lives"
  • "The book of my lives"@en
  • "El libro de mis vidas"@es
  • "Il libro delle mie vite"@it
  • "Il libro delle mie vite"

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