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.

A combined book of two magnificent works by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a reversible single edition: the story of his parents' emigration from Sarajevo, and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends and childhood.

"A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--

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.

An epic, continent-spanning story of a world in convulsion, of millions broken between war, displacement and revolution, and of human bonds so strong that they stretch from Sarajevo to Shanghai without snapping, and encompass all.

Collects stories from thirty European countries by authors old and new

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

"A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--

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