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Nowhere Man (Hemon Novel)
''Nowhere Man'' is a 2002 novel by Aleksandar Hemon named after the Beatles song " Nowhere Man". The novel (subtitled ''The Pronek Fantasies'') centers around the character of Jozef Pronek, a Bosnian refugee, who was already the subject of Hemon's novella ''Blind Jozef Pronek & Dead Souls'' published in his short story collection ''The Question of Bruno'' (2000). The novel comprises a series of vignettes telling the story of a character named Jozef Pronek, a Ukrainian born and raised in Bosnia. Pronek's biography is related by multiple narrators. The book can be divided into three sections. The first section describes Pronek's peaceful childhood in 1980s Sarajevo. The second section follows Pronek as he is a university student in Kyiv in the Soviet Union at the time of the 1991 political turmoil (narrated by his dormitory roommate Victor Plavchuk). In the third part of the book Pronek is an immigrant in Chicago, where he works in a series of low-paid jobs including working as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels '' Nowhere Man'' (2002) and '' The Lazarus Project'' (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021). He frequently publishes in ''The New Yorker'' and has also written for ''Esquire'', ''The Paris Review'', the Op-Ed page of ''The New York Times'', and the Sarajevo magazine '' BH Dani''. Early life Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to a father of partial Ukrainian descent and a Bosnian Serb mother. Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Biography Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer in former Yugoslavia by the time he was 26. Since 1992 he has lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |