DECEMBER 15, 2013
BLACKSTONE EXCLUSIVE
NOWHERE MAN By Aleksandar Hemon Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek.
“Hemon can’t write a boring sentence, and the English language…is the richer for it.” —New York Times Book Review
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“A virtuoso linguist, stylist, and social Fiction / Literary (FIC019000)
observer…Hemon delivers a searing,
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mordantly funny novel.”
6½ hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD ISBN-13:
—San Francisco Chronicle
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“A wild, twisty read, and Hemon’s inimitable voice and the wry urgency of his storytelling should cement his reputation as a talented young writer.”
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—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author’s Home: Chicago Setting: Chicago, Sarajevo Sales Territory: North America
A native of Sarajevo, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992—just in time to watch war break out in his country
but
too
early
to
be
a
genuine
refugee.
Indeed,
Jozef’s typical answer to inquiries about his origins and
Publishing Background: Vintage Books Book ISBN: 9780375727023 Retail per Carton: 80 CDs, 50 MP3 CDs Retail Ship Date: 11/24/13
ethnicity is, “I am complicated.” And so he proves to be— not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but
insightful
narrators
who
chart
his
progress
from
Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first
President
armed
Serb.
Bush
to
Moving,
a
grave
meeting
disquieting,
with
and
a
heavily
exhilarating,
Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.
MARKETING New York Times bestselling author A Society of Midland Authors Award Winner, a Los Angeles Book Prize Finalist, and a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee Hemon has won numerous prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a “a genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation For readers of The Terminal Man, the basis for the Tom Hanks film The Terminal, and Teju Cole’s Open City Author website: AleksandarHemon.com Also available: The Question of Bruno 61