The book of my lives / Aleksandar Hemon.
Author: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
ISBN: 9780374115739 (hbk.)
0374115737 (hbk.)
Description: viii, 214 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Homes and haunts Illinois Chicago.
Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Homes and haunts Bosnia and Hercegovina Sarajevo.
Authors, American 21st century Biography.
Contents: The lives of others -- Sound and vision -- Family dining -- The Kauders case -- Life during wartime -- The magic mountain -- Let there be what cannot be -- Dog lives -- The book of my life -- The lives of a flaneur -- Reasons why I do not wish to leave Chicago : an incomplete, random list -- If God existed, He'd be a solid midfielder -- The lives of grandmasters -- The kennel life -- The aquarium.
Summary: "This is not really a memoir ... [Defying] convention and expectation, it is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer--and not for the exercise"--Dust jacket flap.
