Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of, most recently, “ My Parents/This Does Not Belong to You .” He teaches at Princeton University.

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The Noble Truths of Suffering

fiction · September 22, 2008

Short story about a Bosnian man’s encounter with a famous American novelist in Sarajevo. The American Ambassador’s house in Sarajevo was a huge, ugly …

The Conductor

fiction · February 28, 2005

Short story about a young Bosnian writer who emigrates to the United States before the Bosnian-Serb war, and his relationship with an older Bosnian poet, …