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- Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
- ISBN: 1594488649
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112514677
- Release Date: May 14, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Love and Obstacles" by Aleksandar Hemon to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Love and Obstacles"Browse more products related to "Aleksandar Hemon"Review"Hemon arranges words like gems in a necklace....Writing with steely control and an antic eye, Hemon has assembled another extraordinary work." (starred review) "[I]n Hemon's stories [readers] can observe the strange, lonely artistry of the individual imagination from a distance that seems like no distance at all." "LOVE AND OBSTACLES is superb fiction." "The pattern of leaving and returning, and gaining melancholy wisdom in the process, holds Hemon's linked coming-of-age stories together with drifting beauty....The stories become scarred elegies, quickened with poetry, anger, violence, wistful love and, throughout, Hemon's extraordinary lyric freedom." "Possessed of a phenomenal gift for translating feelings into concrete imagery in masterfully structure tales that end in stunning crescendos, Hemon infuses everything...with barbed insights into our instinct for aggression, longing for connection, and unquenchable need to tell our stories.... [He] is a world-class writer of seismic depth, riptide humor, wine-dark language, and unflinching candor." (starred review) "[P]rofound...[and] ambitious.... A master of modern literary gamesmanship returns with a short-story collection that just might be a novel." (starred review) AnnotationAcclaimed Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon's semi-autobiographical short-stories follow a single character, Bogden, from his days as a disgruntled teenager in Zaire where his father works as an ambassador, to his forced exile in Chicago during the Bosnian War (as was Hemon himself), to his eventual rise to literary prominence. Hemon's stories are a wonderful blend of a journalist's sense of location, detail, and the forces of history combined with an artist's love of language, memory, and metaphor--MacArthur Fellow Hemon is a rare hybrid, a savvy immigrant writer tackling the sufferings and desires of the globalized world. If You Enjoy "Love and Obstacles (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Love and Obstacles (Hardcover)" by Aleksandar Hemon (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Non-Classifiable Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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