Aleksandar Hemon Knihy

Debutová zbierka poviedok americko-bosnianskeho autora Aleksandara Hemona nie je žiadnym začiatočníckym pokusom, ale štylisticky brilantným, vtipným a tragikomickým obrazom sveta. Sveta bývalej Juhoslávie a detstva stráveného s portrétmi súdruha Tita na stenách škôl a hračkami zo ZSSR páchnucimi olejom. Príbehy o Sarajeve a autorovej rodinnej histórii, o živote v Chicagu v čase, keď všetci priatelia a známi bojovali v ďalšej zo zbytočných európskych vojen. PROBLÉM MENOM BRUNO je novelou a poviedkami, ktoré sú poprepájané postavami, mestami, príbehmi, ale najmä silným a citlivým hlasom rozprávača. Či už Hemon píše o atentáte na arcivojvodu Františka Ferdinanda alebo rodinnom výlete na pláž, o prisťahovalcovi v USA alebo umení uniknúť hľadáčiku ostreľovača v obliehanom meste, jeho príbehy sú bolestne humorné a nesmierne smutné. Vďaka originalite a humoru je Aleksandar Hemon jedným z najtalentovanejších autorov svojej generácie.

"Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multi-ethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father, and 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 there is Chicago -- war breaking out at home and the city fully under siege, the Hemon family fleeing Sarajevo (with their dog) and all they had ever known, applying for asylum, and Hemon himself starting his own family in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. Like Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives 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. 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."--Publisher's description.

The linked stories of "Love and Obstacles" center around a young man from Yugosalvia who immigrates to America. In dazzling prose, Hemon (himself an immigrant from Yugoslavia) portrays the complications, "the obstacles," of growing up in a Communist but cosmopolitan country, and the disintegration of that country and the consequent uprooting and move to America in young adulthood.

'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.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 father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum, a summer stroll and idle fantasies can't put in perspective.And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller and Pinto's protector and lover.Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and Bolsheviks. As they travel over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive.

Collects stories from thirty European countries by authors old and new

The mind- and language-bending adventures of Hemon's endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek.

The description highlights Aleksandar Hemon's remarkable talent and impact as a writer, suggesting that his work is currently resonating strongly within literary circles. The praise from Vanity Fair indicates that his storytelling and voice are captivating audiences, positioning him as a significant figure in contemporary literature.

The unprovoked murder of a Russian Jewish immigrant ignites a dazzling novel of flight, emigration and the meaning of home