by vjbooks | Mar 14, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Jan. 2) Bosnian-born Hemon (The Lazarus Project) again beautifully twists the language in this collection of eight powerful and disquieting stories. The 1992 Bosnian war colors in the background of all the tales, whose settings range from...
by vjbooks | Jan 22, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
In two collections of stories, The Question of Bruno and the NBCC-finalist Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon has earned unmatched literary acclaim and a reputation as one of the English language’s most original and moving wordsmiths. In The Lazarus Project, Hemon...
by vjbooks | Dec 29, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, Matthew Kaminski) Last year, a teenager in a trench coat shot to death five people in a crowded Salt Lake City shopping mall, before being gunned down himself by police. The story caught the writer Aleksandar Hemon’s eye not...
