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Hemon, AleksandarHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "A novel about an aspiring screenplay writer--full of script ideas but unable to follow through on any of them--who becomes entangled with a Bosnian woman and her violently jealous husband"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: The murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggers ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMHemon, Aleksandar
Summary: "From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023