A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia’s answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992 - just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozef’s typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, - I am complicated. And so he proves to be—not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat more grave one with a heavily armed Serb whom he has been hired to serve with court papers. Moving, disquieting, and exhilarating in its virtuosity, Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon é autor de <i>O Projeto Lazarus</i>, finalista dos prestigiados National Book Award e do National Book Critics Circle Award, e de três coletâneas de contos: <i>The Question of Bruno</i>; <i>Nowhere Man</i>, finalista do National Book Critics Circle Award, e <i>Love and Obstacles</i>. Natural de Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon visitou Chicago em 1992, tencionando ficar por uns meses. Enquanto lá se encontrava, Sarajevo foi cercada e ele não conseguiu regressar a casa. Hemon escreveu o seu primeiro conto em inglês em 1995. Em 2003 foi-lhe atribuída uma Bolsa Guggenheim e em 2004 uma bolsa da MacArthur Foundation. Vive em Chicago com a mulher e a filha.
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