Aleksandar Hemon est l'auteur de L'espoir est une chose ridicule, De l'esprit chez les abrutis et du Projet Lazarus, élu livre de l'année par le New York Magazine (Robert Laffont, 2000, 2003 et 2010). Né à Sarajevo, Hemon visite Chicago en 1992, où il doit n'y rester que quelques mois. Mais, au même moment, Sarajevo est assiégée ; il ne peut plus rentrer dans son pays. En 1995, il écrit sa première histoire en anglais. Il a reçu le très prestigieux Guggenheim Fellowship en 2003 et une bourse de la fondation MacArthur en 2004. Il vit à Chicago avec sa femme et ses deux filles.
L'auteur est invité en France, en septembre 2012, pour le festival América de Vincennes.
Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.
In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada – of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo, and the new lives his parents were forced to build.
He portrays both the perfect, intimate details – of his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical beekeeping – and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story of his family and of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few confused Canadians.
This Does Not Belong to You is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents. It shows Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations about his family, friends and childhood in Sarajevo, presented as explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures.
‘Not only is Hemon's book a masterpiece in literary terms, it is also a repudiation of the idea of the immigrant as a singular and infantilized creature, a human of lesser depth and complexity than everyone else’ – Rafia Zakaria, TLS
Título : My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
EAN : 9781529038484
Editorial : Pan Macmillan
Edad, de : 18 años
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