Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon
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Nowhere Man

Author: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2013

Synopsis

Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek. A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnias answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992just in time to watch war break out in his country but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozefs typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, I am complicated. And so he proves to benot just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat graver meeting with a heavily armed Serb whom he has been hired to serve with court papers. Moving, disquieting, and exhilarating in its virtuosity, Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.

About Aleksandar Hemon

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

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

Goodreads review by LaHaie

'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

Goodreads review by Moeen

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

Goodreads review by Alta

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

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