My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You
Paperback
31 October 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.
In My Parents, 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...
Details
31 October 2019368 pages
9781529038460Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.Colum McCann, author of TransAtlantic
Hemon at his most contemplative, whimsical, and personal . . . a joyLos Angeles Times
Gorgeous . . . The writing contains both immediacy and a thrillingly historical long view . . . There is all the love and frustration here that anyone feels for their aging parents . . . [and] some of the best writing about what it really feels like to be a child that I can recall reading.Newsday
Not only is Hemon's book a masterpiece in literary terms, it is also a repudiation of the idea of the immigrant as a singular and infantilized creature, a human of lesser depth and complexity than everyone else.Rafia Zakaria, TLS
