The book of my lives

R$ 119,90

Sinopse

This is the first nonfiction book - searing, revealing, unforgettable - from one of our most acclaimed writers. 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 love song 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.

Participantes

Autor: Aleksandar Hemon

Autor

ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Aleksandar Hemon nasceu em Sarajevo, então Iugoslávia, em 1964. Mudou-se para os Estados Unidos 28 anos depois, tornando-se colaborador de veículos como New Yorker, Esquire e Paris Review. Desde seus primeiros romances E o Bruno?(2000) e As fantasias de Pronek (2009), Hemon volta-se para os anseios vividos pelo homem em situações de exílio forçado. Em O projeto Lazarus – eleita a melhor obra de ficção de 2008 pela New Yorker e finalista do National Book Award – incorpora à própria estrutura narrativa a questão da relação entre ficção, história e imigração, numa trama que intervém criticamente no debate político contemporâneo. Seu último livro, The book of my lives (2013), é uma ode às cidades de Sarajevo e Chicago.