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Love and obstacles : stories / Aleksandar Hemon.

Author: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-

Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.

Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010, c2009.

ISBN: 9781594484612 (pbk.)
1594484619 (pbk.)

Description: 209 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Short stories, American.
American fiction 21st century.

Contents: Stairway to heaven -- Everything -- The conductor -- Good living -- Szmura's room -- The bees, part 1 -- American commando -- The noble truths of suffering.

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.

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