Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Semezdin Mehmedinovic is a Bosnian novelist, poet, and essayist. He has worked as an editor for newspapers, weeklies, culture magazines, radio, television, and film. Born in Kiseljak near Tuzla, he studied comparative literature in Sarajevo. Since 1996, he has been living in the United States.
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My Heart
- By: Semezdin Mehmedinovic
- Narrator: Steven Crossley
- Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 27, 2021
- Language: English
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4.31(305 ratings)
When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees; eerie premonitions of Donald Trump’s presidency; the life and work of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief. Poetically explosive and pure to the core, My Heart serves as a kind of mirror, reflecting our human strengths and weaknesses along with the most important issues on our minds: love and death, the present and the past, sickness and health, leaving and staying.
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