Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
Aleksandar Hemon Quotes
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
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| Birth: | 9th September, 1964 |
| Nationality: | American, Bosnian |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. He has written five books: The Book of My Lives; Love and Obstacles: Stories; The Lazarus Project: A Novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book and New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year; Nowhere Man, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno: Stories.
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