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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You audiobook
- By: Aleksandar Hemon
- Narrator: Jeremy Arthur
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Literary
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 11, 2019
- Language: English
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Audiobook Summary
Two audiobooks in one in a flip dos-a-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a collection of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo.
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. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course–his parents, sister, uncles, cousins–and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians.
My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents–a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-a-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer.
In the words of Colum McCann, “Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.” Hemon has never been better than here. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Audiobook Narrator
Jeremy Arthur is the narrator of My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You audiobook that was written by 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.
About the Author(s) of My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You Full Details
| Narrator | Jeremy Arthur |
| Length | 8 hours 45 minutes |
| Author | Aleksandar Hemon |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | June 11, 2019 |
| ISBN | 9781250232731 |
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The publisher of the My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Literary
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The publisher of the My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250232731.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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