Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- <br/><br/>
The book of my lives 
/ Aleksandar Hemon. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Farrar, Straus and Giroux  , 2013. 
 - 242 p.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo with the family dog, leaving behind all else they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir.  It is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer - and not for the exercise. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781250043542 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Homes and haunts<br/>Authors, American---21st century----Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Illinois---Chicago<br/>Bosnia and Hercegovina---Sarajevo
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3608.E48  / B66 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 HEM