Love and obstacles [electronic resource] : stories / Aleksandar Hemon.

Author: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-

Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.

ISBN: 9781101030684 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
1101030682 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
9781101032848 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
1101032847 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
9781101032305 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
1101032308 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)

Description: 209 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Short stories, American.
American fiction 21st century.
Electronic books. local

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.