The Making of Zombie Wars, Aleksandar Hemon
The Making of Zombie Wars, Aleksandar Hemon
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The Making of Zombie Wars
A Novel

Author: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrator: Chris Patton

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2015


Synopsis

The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised

Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek.

Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love.

Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain.

Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

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 Prerazmišljavanje on July 01, 2019

Da, razumela sam knjigu. Ne, nije dobra. Ne, Hemon nije polubog pripovedanja. Da, stojim iza ovoga.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 24, 2016

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) It's funny that so much of my time as a reviewer in the last few months has been centered around authors wh......more

Goodreads review by Sub_zero on June 24, 2016

Aunque su leve tufillo a telefilm de sobremesa no me acababa de convencer al principio, cuando se trata de un título que publica Libros del Asteroide la parte instintiva de tu cerebro avisa de que es muy difícil sentirse decepcionado. Sencillamente no hay sitio para novelas de serie B en su catálogo......more

Goodreads review by Drew on April 09, 2015

4.5 out of 5. Hemon is having a ball here and it's evident on nearly every page. People keep talking about how "unexpected" the humor is - but even if you go in now expecting it, you'll still laugh. There is a glee to the writing, a glee the author quite clearly felt, that makes it that much more fu......more

Goodreads review by Aleks on May 22, 2016

This was a wild ride from start to finish but nothing more than that. Maybe it is the translation that got in the way, or maybe because Hemon is from Bosnia and sentences like "Jebao si ježa" are so familiar that only translated in English can make people laugh. (One of the reviewers wrote that Hemo......more


Quotes

“An extraordinary story.” —The New Yorker on The Book of My Lives

“At once unimaginable and unforgettable.” —Time on The Book of My Lives

“Acute meditations on exile and otherness, and the redeeming power of language.” —The Economist on The Book of My Lives

“As crowded as the pool of contemporary writers wrestling with the American experience has become . . . no discussion is complete without Aleksandar Hemon.” —Chicago Tribune on The Book of My Lives