The book of my lives
Biography, Literature biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, a small city where a young boy’s life is consumed with street soccer, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man’s life is about poking at… the pretensions of the city’s elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo, leaving behind all they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. 2013.