- Bosnian Americans, Immigrants, Fiction, Fiction, general
Jozef Pronek, a young man from Sarajevo who stayed in the United States and watched the war on television, journeys from Sarajevo to the Soviet Union, Shanghai, and Chicago as he deals with the complexities of adolescence.
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- Author
- Aleksandar Hemon
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- Vintage, Picador, Vintage International
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385499248
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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.”
Aleksandar Hemon (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels *Nowhere Man* (2002) and *The Lazarus Project* (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of *The Matrix Resurrections* (2021).
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