{"product_id":"9780374708887","title":"The Book of My Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eAleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo with the family dog, leaving behind all else they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                And yet this is not really a memoir. \u003ci\u003eThe Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Hemon's first book of nonfiction, defies convention and expectation. It is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer—and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader—a different person, with a new way of looking at the world—when you've finished. For fans of Hemon's fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives \u003c\/i\u003eis simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time.A \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077662032112,"sku":"9780374708887","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374708887_p0.jpg?v=1769915138","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374708887","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}