Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [x], 242, [2]. Pictorial wraps.
Author's first novel. National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for 2002. Hemon returns to the character of Jozef Pronek – a young man from Sarajevo who overstayed his visa in the United States and watched the war on television – from his earlier collection of linked stories The Question of Bruno (2000). First introduced in his short story "Blind Jozef Pronek", published by The New Yorker in 1999.
The disintegration of the former Yugoslavia casts a long shadow in the author's work who opined a piece in the pages of The New York Times criticizing the Swedish Academy for awarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Milošević 'apologist', Peter Handke. "One of literature's most engaging lost young men since Augie March... Hemon can't write a boring sentence, and the English language... is the richer for it." –The New York Times Book Review