

Nowhere Man
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant†from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.
sad. if i had to review the book in a word, that'd be it. but, like the titular character, this is "complicated." the book made me sad because it's author only started writing in english in 1995 and already has a vastly, vastly better grasp and ability in the language than i do - and i've been speak......more
'Nowhere Man' is one of the very best English language books of the decade. It is a triumph of innovative and meaningful story-telling and a masterpiece of word-craft. Aleksandar Hemon is perhaps the first and only writer able to absorb a strong affinity with Nabokov without being drowned like Narci......more
همن نویسندهی محبوب من بین نویسندههای زندهس. طنز و خونسردی توأم بالکانیش، شخصیتهای بیدرکجای گیج/کمیک/غمانگیز، بازیگوشیها و فرمهای ادبیِ راهگشا و چالشبرانگیز، وسعت تاریخی/جغرافیاییدادن به تجربهی شخصیش، و شاید از همه مهمتر تواناییش تو نوشتنِ صحنهها، جزئیات و جملههایی که آدم رو غافلگیر و......more
Nowhere Man is published as a novel, yet the seven stories comprising it do not necessarily create the coherent whole we have grown accustomed to call “a novel.” But the book’s epigraph, a quote from The Age of Genius by Bruno Schulz, might give us a clue to the novel’s structure and inner logic, th......more