Aleksandar Hemon on Granta.com
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If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder
Aleksandar Hemon
‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’
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Exchange of Pleasant Words
Aleksandar Hemon
‘What year was it? We have chosen to believe it was 1811’.
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Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss
Aleksandar Hemon
‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’
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Pronek in History
Aleksandar Hemon
‘This happened on a night train to Linz: swarthy-faced robbers startle Adolf and strip his felt jacket halfway down his arms so he cannot move them (their long nails scratching him just above his elbow)’.
