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.
There, he watched from afar as war broke out in Bosnia, his parents and sister f.
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
