04136cam a2200637 4500 525680730 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250232731 1250232732 fe4575f3-67f9-42e2-8fc1-132d6f9c0d89 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4321422 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hemon, Aleksandar. My Parents [Libby Audiobook] : An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You. Macmillan Audio, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 240MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 240MB. hudson bookseller best books of the year. autobiographical writing. literary autobiography. award winning authors. personal narrative . American Literature. best books of 2019. essay collections. bosnian americans. personal history. two books in one. Literary Memoir. family history. books on tape. Coming of age. author memoir. writer memoir. Immigration. audio books. audiobooks. childhood. Sarajevo. Balkans. Chicago. Bosnia. Canada. Essays. HTML:<p><b>Two audiobooks in one in a flip dos-à-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.</b></p> <p>In <i>My Parents</i>, 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.</p> <p><i>My Parents</i> 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. <i>This Does Not Belong to You</i>, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to <i>My Parents</i>—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-à-dos with <i>My Parents</i>, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer.</p> <p>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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Arthur, Jeremy. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4321422-MyParents.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fe4575f3-67f9-42e2-8fc1-132d6f9c0d89&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4321422-MyParents.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fe4575f3-67f9-42e2-8fc1-132d6f9c0d89&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)