The Book of My Lives

by Aleksandar Hemon

Book Overview

A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374115737
• ISBN13: 9780374115739
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"