My parents : an introduction ; This does not belong to you / Aleksandar Hemon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-.

Bosnians.

Families.

United States.

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964---Family.

Hemon, Aleksandar.

Immigrants--United States--Biography.

Immigrants.

Bosnians--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

168, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

This does not belong to you

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Summary:

"This is Aleksandar Hemon at his most intimate and most urgent, the book he was literally born to write: the stories of his parents, of his own arrival in this world, of dislocation and immigration"-- Provided by publisher.

"Two books in one in a flip dos-?-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 Sarajevo. In My Parents, [the author] 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-?-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Texts printed back to back and inverted, each with its own t.p.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Works. Selections

Container of: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- This does not belong to you.

ISBN:

9780374217433

0374217432

OCLC:

1083672910

Publisher Number:

40029230694