3 Books by Aleksandar HemonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MB | RetailOverview: Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the […]
Best European Fiction 2010 by Aleksandar Hemon (Editor) , Zadie Smith (Preface)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 598KBOverview: 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-language literature was […]
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar HemonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 408KBOverview: 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 […]
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar HemonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.2 MBOverview: On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin. A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes […]
Nowhere Man by Aleksandar HemonRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1,2 MB Overview: 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. […]