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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-     Subjects     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago.     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Sarajevo.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-       by title:      The book of my lives...       by call number:      814.6 H489b     Search the Web     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago.     Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Sarajevo.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.       MARC Display

The book of my lives / Aleksandar Hemon. by Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Call #: 814.6 H489b Subjects Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-   Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Chicago.   Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- -- Homes and haunts -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Sarajevo.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography. ISBN:  9780374115739 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374115737 (hardcover : alk. paper) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  viii, 214 p. ; 22 cm. Contents:  The lives of others -- Sound and vision -- Family dining -- The Kauders case -- Life during wartime -- The magic mountain -- Let there be what cannot be -- Dog lives -- The book of my life -- The lives of a flaneur -- Reasons why I do not wish to leave Chicago : an incomplete, random list -- If God existed, He'd be a solid midfielder -- The lives of grandmasters -- The kennel life -- The aquarium. Summary:  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. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 H489b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 H489b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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