My Heart
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My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia in 1960, and was educated at the University of Sarajevo. In 1994, with five other Bosnian writers, he received the Hellman-Hammet Award from PEN for persistence in preserving democracy in the midst of war. Mehmedinovic arrived in the United States as a political refugee in 1996. His books include Sarajevo Blues (1992), Nine Alexandrias (2002), Soviet Computer (2011), Self-portrait With a Messenger Bag (2012) and Me'med, red bandana and snowflake (2017). He currently lives in Arlington, VA.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781646220076 |
| ISBN 10 | 1646220072 |
| Title | My Heart |
| Author | Semezdin Mehmedinovic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Catapult |
| Year published | 2021-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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