Nowhere Man - Brossura

Hemon, Aleksandar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375727027 ISBN 13: 9780375727023

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2004

Riassunto

Jozef Pronek, a young man from Sarajevo who stayed in the U.S. and watched the war at home on TV, journeys from Sarajevo to the Soviet Union, Shanghai, and Chicago as he deals with the complexities and emotional upheavals of adolescence, enrolls in a Chicago ESL class, and endures such minimum wage careers as a P.I. and a fund-raiser for Greenpeace. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"One of literature's most engaging lost young men since Augie March. . . . Hemon can't write a boring sentence, and the English language . . . is the richer for it." —The New York Times Book Review

"A charmingly discombobulated take on life and language. . . . Hemon makes ordinary occurrences read like psychic disturbances." —The Village Voice

“A virtuoso linguist, stylist and social observer . . . Hemon delivers a searing, mordantly funny novel. . . . The angst-ridden, horny, adolescent Balkan he depicts is deeply human, totally irresistible and often hilarious, and by turns culturally specific and universal.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Hemon’s fractured story will haunt you long after you want it to, as you slowly realize that just because the last sentence ended with a period, all that was said before continues.” –Chicago Sun-Times

L'autore:

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno, which appeared on Best Books of 2000 lists nationwide, won several literary awards, and was published in eighteen countries. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon arrived in Chicago in 1992, began writing in English in 1995, and now his work appears regularly in The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375727027
• ISBN 13: 9780375727023
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256