The Question of Bruno

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 230, [2], photographic frontispiece, b/w pls., map, footnotes. Quarter-bound lavender cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey stippled endpapers. Deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Jean Traina with praise by Nathan Englander, Amy Tan, Stuart Dybek, and Colum McCann to rear panel (priced $22.95 to front flap). Preceded by a month by the UK edition.

Author's literary debut. A collection of interconnected short stories and a novella, with settings ranging from Chicago to Sarajevo, about love, war, espionage and beekeeping. An elegy for a vanished Yugoslavia by a Sarajevo born writer, resident in Chicago since 1992, for whom English is an acquired language.

In October 2019, Hemon wrote a piece in The New York Times for their Opinion column, criticizing the Swedish Academy for awarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Milošević 'apologist', Peter Handke. National Book Award finalist for The Lazarus Project (2008). "Hemon is a maestro, a conjurer, a channeler of universes... As vivid a prose as you will find anywhere this year." –Sven Birkerts, Esquire Magazine