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Love and obstacles : stories / Aleksandar Hemon.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.E48 L68 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 209 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
- Summary:
- The linked stories of "Love and Obstacles" center around a young man from Yugosalvia who immigrates to America. In dazzling prose, Hemon (himself an immigrant from Yugoslavia) portrays the complications, "the obstacles," of growing up in a Communist but cosmopolitan country, and the disintegration of that country and the consequent uprooting and move to America in young adulthood.
- Contents:
- Stairway to heaven
- Everything
- The conductor
- Good living
- Szmura's room
- The bees, part 1
- American commando
- The noble truths of suffering.
- ISBN:
- 9781594488641
- 1594488649
- OCLC:
- 262428482
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