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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. The Bosnian American author Aleksandar Hemon was a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel "The World And All That It Holds," a tale of war and love that spans nearly a century. Rafael Pinto was there in Sarajevo when shots ...

In the weeks since I finished Aleksandar Hemon’s unlike-any-novel-I’ve-read-before “The World and All That It Holds,” I have puzzled over how vividly it remains with me — I keep reentering this world, ...

In 2007, novelist Aleksandar Hemon took his wife, Teri, and infant daughter on vacation to Florida. Hemon's parents, who'd escaped their native Bosnia as the country was devastated in its 1990s civil ...

Of all family mythology, the story of how our parents met is the most dependent on chance. Traffic, a delayed train, or the decision to go to a different bar, and that fabled meeting might never have ...

Aleksandar Hemon has populated both his fiction (“Nowhere Man,” “The Lazarus Project”) and nonfiction (“The Book of My Lives”) with stories and characters from his native Bosnia. His latest ...

The Bosnian American author Aleksandar Hemon was a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his 2008 novel "The Lazarus Project," about the police killing of an ...

Rafael Pinto was there in Sarajevo when shots rang out in 1914. Let's ask Aleksandar Hemon to read from his new novel, "The World And All It Holds." ALEKSANDAR HEMON: (Reading) To the right of Pinto, ...

Aleksandar Hemon has just published his fourth book, &#8220Love and Obstacles,&#8221 an &#8220antibiographical&#8221 (see below) collection of short stories, several of which first appeared in the ...