Synopsis
About Aleksandar Hemon
See more books from this AuthorOn the other hand, particularly in the novella, a recounting of the wanderings of a Sarajevan transplanted to Chicago at the outset of the civil war, and in `The Sorge Spy Ring,` a longish, clever mix of autobiographical reminiscence and historical fact with a totally unexpected dark ending, Hemo...
| Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoElsewhere, history footnotes fiction, as in the experimental ""The Sorge Spy Ring,"" which juxtaposes a wryly compiled case file of an actual Soviet agent with a boy's fantasy of his father's spying for the U.S.S.R.
| Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoWhether he's describing a boy who believes his father is a spy while telling the story of a real spy's life in footnotes (''The Sorge Spy Ring'') imagining Archduke Franz Ferdinand's last thouhgts (''Accordion''), or describing a man caught in the U.S. while war rages in his hometown in Eastern E...
Jun 02 2000 | Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoIf you are using the site for the first time please register here If you would like access to all 12,000 articles subscribe here Institutions or university library users please login here Learn more about our institutional subscriptions here A downloadable PDF version of this book review is...
| Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoNew to paperback, this book (winner of the LA Times Best Book and a New York Times Notable) is a remarkable collection of short stories about love and war that not only illuminate a common immigrant experience in this country, but also provide stylistically adventurous forays into war-torn life i...
Aug 09 2001 | Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoIn other stories, Hemon employs footnotes right within the core of the narrative to add some heft or intentionally distort our perception of fiction as history or fact by making his narratives something close to an essay.
Apr 06 2001 | Read Full Review of The Question of BrunoAn aggregated and normalized score based on 26 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes