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Aleksandar Hemon

Biography

Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: THE QUESTION OF BRUNO; NOWHERE MAN, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and LOVE AND OBSTACLES. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.

Aleksandar Hemon

Books by Aleksandar Hemon

by Aleksandar Hemon - Fiction

Disaster ensues when Josh --- an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes --- becomes entangled with a student whose husband is jealous and violent in this seriously funny roller-coaster ride of a novel.