The first nonfiction book--searing, revealing, unforgettable--from one of today\'s most acclaimed writers.
Like the best narratives, it is a Book that will leave you a different reader when you finish--and a different person, with a new way of looking at the world..
At once a love song to two cities and a paean to the bonds of family, The Book of My Lives is a singular work of passion, built on fierce intelligence, unspeakable tragedies, and sharp insight.
Yet this, his first Book of nonfiction, is much more than a memoir of these experiences.
There, he watched from afar as war broke out in Bosnia, his parents and sister fleeing, and Hemon himself unable to return.
At the age of twenty-seven, Hemon journeyed to Chicago--a trip that would mark the beginning of another life, this time in the United States.
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Aleksandar Hemon\'s Lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man\'s life is about American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism.
In Sarajevo, a young boy\'s life is consumed with street soccer with his casually multiethnic group of friends, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father.
The first nonfiction book--searing, revealing, unforgettable--from one of today\'s most acclaimed writers
