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Author:

Mehmedinović, Semezdin, 1960- author.

Title:

My heart : a novel / Semezdin Mehmedinovic ; translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth ; introduction by Aleksandar Hemon.

Publisher:

Catapult,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

ix, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Authors--Fiction.
Near-death experiences--Fiction.
Families--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Fiction.
Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--1992---Fiction.
Refugees--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Fiction.
Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.

Other Authors:

Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942- translator.
Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964- writer of foreword.

Summary:

"When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees; eerie premonitions of Donald Trump's presidency; the life and work of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief."--Publisher.

ISBN:

1646220072
9781646220076

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240364569

LCCN:

2020942074

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)