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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374115737ISBN 13: 9780374115739
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by St. Martins Press-3PL, 2014
ISBN 10: 1250043549ISBN 13: 9781250043542
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.
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Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1447210905ISBN 13: 9781447210900
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by football, by resentment of his younger sister, and by occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father; and where 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. Yet this is not really a memoir. It is a lovesong to Sarajevo and to Hemon's adopted Chicago; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play football - 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by PicadorUSA, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447210913ISBN 13: 9781447210917
Seller: MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. 1694427153. 9/11/2023 10:12:33 AM.
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Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2010
ISBN 10: 1594484619ISBN 13: 9781594484612
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project "a dazzling collection of stories . further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English" (GQ). The stories of Aleksandar Hemon's Love and Obstacles are united by their narrator, a young man coming of age in Communist-but-cosmopolitan Sarajevo who will leave for the United States just as his city is torn asunder. In Hemon's hands, seemingly mundane childhood experiences become daring, dramatic adventures, while unique and wrenching circumstances become a common ground that involves us all. As cohesive and impressive as any novel, the short story collection Love and Obstacles stands with the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project as the best work of this MacArthur Genius Award winner's career.From the author of The Book of My Lives. Hemon earned his reputation--and his MacArthur "genius grant"--for his short stories, and he returns to the form with a powerful collection of linked stories that stands with "The Lazarus Project" as the best work of his celebrated career. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Picador
ISBN 10: 1447211960ISBN 13: 9781447211969
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
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Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2009
ISBN 10: 1594483752ISBN 13: 9781594483752
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project.On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin.A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuch's path.Through a history of pogroms and poverty, and a prism of a present-day landscape of cheap mafiosi and even cheaper prostitutes, the stories of Averbuch and Brik become inextricably intertwined, creating a truly original, provocative, and entertaining novel that confirms Aleksandar Hemon, often compared to Vladimir Nabokov, as one of the most dynamic and essential literary voices of our time.From the author of The Book of My Lives. A beautifully rendered reevaluation of a previously misunderstood chapter in the history of immigration to America--which is to say, in the history of America itself--Hemon's work describes and defines what it means to be a new citizen in this land--"Miami Herald." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Pan Macmillan, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1529038464ISBN 13: 9781529038460
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents immigration to Canada of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo, and the new lives his parents were forced to build. He portrays both the perfect, intimate details of his mothers lonely upbringing, his fathers fanatical beekeeping and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story of his family and of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few confused Canadians.This Does Not Belong to You is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents. It shows Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations about his family, friends and childhood in Sarajevo, presented as explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures.Not only is Hemon's book a masterpiece in literary terms, it is also a repudiation of the idea of the immigrant as a singular and infantilized creature, a human of lesser depth and complexity than everyone else Rafia Zakaria, TLS 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 authors family, friends and childhood. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374115737ISBN 13: 9780374115739
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Hemon on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 8vo. 214pp. Signed by Author.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374115737ISBN 13: 9780374115739
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 214pp. Owner's email address penned on front fly with underlining in text, spine ends bumped, good only in a fine dustwrapper. The author's first book of nonfiction with a collection of stories about Hemon's childhood in Sarajevo and his adult life in Chicago.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st US Edition. 1st US Edition. Hardcover.
Published by Farrar , Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374115737ISBN 13: 9780374115739
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st US Edition. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Stated First Edition and full number line.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013
ISBN 10: 0374115737ISBN 13: 9780374115739
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW YORK: FSG (2013). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free, defect-free. This book was purchased new and shelved, untouched since then. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle 2013, Autobiography. 0.0. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Hamish Hamilton, Canada, 2019
ISBN 10: 0735238383ISBN 13: 9780735238381
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (-). 1st. (CAD) 1st printing of the First edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the title page of This Does Not Belong to You, no other markigns, Fine in Fine (-) dust jacket with a tiny tear just to the top corner of the front falp fold (about 1/8" long). Dj is in mylar sleeve. This is flip-format book with two novels, one on each side of the book. 188pp then 10 unnumbered pages of photos; then flipping the book over 182pp. This is a memoire of the author's parents immigrtation from the seige of Sarajevo and the lives they built in North America. This Does Not Belong to You is a companion piece to My Parents. Hemon has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. (2.0 JM HOJ 301/2 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Published by Picador USA Jul 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1250619645ISBN 13: 9781250619648
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother's lonely upbringing, his father's fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course-his parents, sister, uncles, cousins-and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents-a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer.In the words of Colum McCann, 'Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.' Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015
ISBN 10: 0374203415ISBN 13: 9780374203412
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page. The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised. Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love. Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain. Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS takes on real consequence. From the celebrated author of THE QUESTION OF BRUNO, THA LAZARUS PROECT, and THE BOOK OF MY LIVES, among others. Mint, unread, first edition, first printing, opened only for signing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} . L162/L129. Signed by Author(s).
Published by MCD Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0374217432ISBN 13: 9780374217433
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Book
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother's lonely upbringing, his father's fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course-his parents, sister, uncles, cousins-and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents-a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer.In the words of Colum McCann, 'Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.' Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.
Published by Picador, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1447210905ISBN 13: 9781447210900
Seller: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing in a fine dustjacket (not price-clipped) fitted with a protective and removable mylar sleeve - Book is "As New" - My books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).