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4/5 The Telegraph Publication date 19 March 2013 Pages 224 pp Originally published 19 March 2013 Genre Non-fiction | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-374-11573-9 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography Similar Aleksandar Hemon books, Non-fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of My Lives is the first book of nonfiction by the Bosnian-American novelist Aleksandar Hemon. It's a collection of nonfiction pieces about Hemon's childhood in Sarajevo and his adult life in Chicago. The final essay tells of his young daughter's brain tumor and untimely death; it was first published in The New Yorker under the title "The Aquarium."
Hemon’s The Book of My Lives was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013.
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