Book
My parents ; This does not belong to you / Aleksandar Hemon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735238381
- Physical Description: 168, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Texts printed back to back and inverted, each with its own title page. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- > Family. Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- Immigrants > United States > Biography. Bosnians > United States > Biography. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Grand Forks and District Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Forks | BIO 818.6 HEM (Text) | 35142002681194 | Biography | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
An intimate portrait of immigration, family, and the heartbreaking (and sometimes hilarious) things that happen along the way from the author Colum McCann calls "the greatest writer of our generation."
In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration from Bosnia to Canada--of the lives that were upended in the Siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, Hemon portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother's lonely upbringing, his father's fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country, from the rule of Otto von Bismarck to the massacres that shocked the world. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course--his parents, sister, uncles, cousins--and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav communist revolutionary partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, and a few befuddled Canadians.
That would be enough to astound readers and yet Hemon also shares an untampered series of beautifully distilled memories and observations titled This Does Not Belong to You, the perfect complement to a major work from a major writer who is about to become unignorable.
