Aleksandar Hemon

On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police....

As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo on a sunny June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It’s not quite the life he had expected during his student days....

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt....

New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young contemporary writers....

In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration from Bosnia to Canada - of the lives that were upended in the Siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build....

Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy....

A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence tryingto become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992....

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force - the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's - Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking....