My heart : a novel / Semezdin Mehmedinović ; translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth ; introduction by Aleksandar Hemon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehmedinović, Semezdin, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942- translator.

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Me'med, crvena bandana i pahuljica. English

Language:

Bosnian

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Refugees.

History.

Families.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Near-death experiences--Fiction.

Near-death experiences.

Families--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Fiction.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--1992---Fiction.

Refugees--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Fiction.

Immigrants--United States--Fiction.

Immigrants.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fictional autobiographies.

History.

Autobiographical fiction.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Catapult, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the Bosnian.

Summary:

"When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees; eerie premonitions of Donald Trump's presidency; the life and work of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief."--Jacket flap.

ISBN:

9781646220076

1646220072

OCLC:

1240364569