Nowhere Man (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandar Hemon
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1967-2000
- Setting: Sarajevo, Chicago, Kiev, and Shanghai
- Principal Characters: Jozef Pronek, Mizra, Sabrina, Rachel, Victor Plavchuck, Captain Pick
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Writing, Chicago, 1980’s, Immigration or emigration, War, Identity, 1990’s, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, 2000’s
- Locales: Shanghai, China, Kiev, Ukraine, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Aleksandar Hemon, born in Sarajevo, came to America in 1992 on a cultural visa as a twenty-eight-year-old journalist. Scheduled to return to Bosnia on the day the Yugoslav army began shelling his home town, he was granted political asylum and settled down in Chicago, taking jobs as a dishwasher and sandwich maker and trying to learn English by making lists of words from the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov. Three years after his arrival in the United States he started publishing stories in English in magazines such as The New Yorker and Granta; some were chosen for Best...
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