An unusual structure, along with a striking pictorial and metaphoric imagination, offers distinctive literary pleasures in this genuinely original first novel....Think of the gifted Hemon as a kinder and gentler--and infinitely funnie...
The start of the most ambitious editorial project in Dalkey Archive's history. Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so f...
Set in the darkest heart of Africa, in the backwaters of Slovenia, in the melting pot of Chicago, this brilliant collection of stories is coloured throughout by the 1992 Bosnian war. All but one of them features Bogdan, first met as a...
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 T...
Best European Fiction 2011 (Best Euro...
Aleksandar Hemon"Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read."—Time The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New Y...
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banvillejoins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series,and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European co...
My Parents: An Introduction / This Do...
Aleksandar HemonTwo books in one in a flip dos- -dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo In My Parents, Aleksand...
The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel
Aleksandar Hemon"Aleksandar Hemon is on fire." ―Vanity Fair"His writing style is as vital and rewarding as ever. . . . The kind of writing that pulls you in and holds you there." ―San Francisco ChronicleJoshua Levin has a reas...
The Question of Bruno: Stories
Aleksandar HemonSet in Sarajevo and Chicago, the linked stories and novella in this debut collection describe characters trying to rebuild their lives, either in the war-ruined city they grew up in, or in Chicago where they live as refugees. The story