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| Author: Aleksandar Hemon |
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Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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Had I been dreaming, I would have dreamt of being someone else, with a little creature burrowed in my body, clawing at the walls inside my chest--a recurring nightmare. But I was awake, listening to the mizzle in my pillow, to the furniture furtively sagging, to the house creaking under the wind assaults. (from the first line)
| 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. *Author: Hemon, Aleksandar *Publication Date: 2004/01/01 *Number of Pages: 256 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.00 |
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A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia’s answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992—just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozef’s typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, “I am complicated.” And so he proves to be—not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat more grave one with a heavily armed Serb whom he has been hired to serve with court papers. Moving, disquieting, and exhilarating in its virtuosity, Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia. |
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The life of a man named Jozef Pronek is recounted in this novel by a Bosnian-American writer. Pronek's life is traced from its beginnings to a time in the late 20th century when he is being interviewed for a job in Chicago as an ESL teacher. In between, he becomes increasingly alienated--"a real nowhere man"--in spite of a happy marriage and an eventful life.
The life of a man named Jozef Pronek is recounted in this novel by a Bosnian-American writer. Pronek's life is traced from its beginnings to a time in the late 20th century when he is being interviewed for a job in Chicago as an ESL teacher. In between, he becomes increasingly alienated--"a real nowhere man"--in spite of a happy marriage and an eventful life.
Author Bio
Aleksandar Hemon
Bosnian writer Aleksander Hemon grew up in Sarajevo and received a degree in English literature. Afterwards he worked in radio and journalism. While Hemon was on a cultural exchange program to Chicago in 1992, the Bosnian War broke out, forcing Hemon to remain in the United States. Though he knew rudimentary English, he improved his vocabulary by looking up the words in the novels of Nabokov, and his beautiful mastery of English as a second language would later draw comparisons to both Nabokov and Joseph Conrad. In 1995 Hemon's short stories began appearing in The New Yorker, followed by the publication of his acclaimed novels NOWHERE MAN and THE LAZARUS PROJECT, which both deal with issues of immigration, war, language, and history. In 2004 Hemon was awarded a MacArthur "Genius Grant."
Praise
Kirkus Reviews
"An unusual structure, along with a striking pictorial and metaphoric imagination, offers distinctive literary pleasures in this genuinely original first novel....Think of the gifted Hemon as a kinder and gentler--and infinitely funnier--Jerzy Kosinski." 08/01/2002 New York Times Book Review
"Hemon's observations are rarely off target, and language remains his dearest friend....Hemon can't write a boring sentence, and the English language (which he adopted at a late age) is the richer for it....NOWHERE MAN succeeds more often than it fails and will very likely serve as a springboard for even greater feats of the imagination from Aleksandar Hemon." - Gary Shteyngart 09/15/2002 Harper's
"[A] young wrier, whose extraordinarily original eye takes what might have seemed like well-trod American ground and transforms it into an interior landscape all his own....Will he make the leap, as Nabokov did, and become an essential American writer? A novel as accomplished and innovative and idiosyncratically moving as NOWHERE MAN leaves one eager to find out." - Jonathan Dee January 2003
"An unusual structure, along with a striking pictorial and metaphoric imagination, offers distinctive literary pleasures in this genuinely original first novel....Think of the gifted Hemon as a kinder and gentler--and infinitely funnier--Jerzy Kosinski." 08/01/2002 New York Times Book Review
"Hemon's observations are rarely off target, and language remains his dearest friend....Hemon can't write a boring sentence, and the English language (which he adopted at a late age) is the richer for it....NOWHERE MAN succeeds more often than it fails and will very likely serve as a springboard for even greater feats of the imagination from Aleksandar Hemon." - Gary Shteyngart 09/15/2002 Harper's
"[A] young wrier, whose extraordinarily original eye takes what might have seemed like well-trod American ground and transforms it into an interior landscape all his own....Will he make the leap, as Nabokov did, and become an essential American writer? A novel as accomplished and innovative and idiosyncratically moving as NOWHERE MAN leaves one eager to find out." - Jonathan Dee January 2003
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