Semezdin Mehmedinovic

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My HeartPaperback, 23 August 2022

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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Catapult
Date Published
23 Aug 2022
ISBN-10
1646221532
ISBN-13
9781646221530

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Calm and contemplative, softened by melancholy humor and always alive to beauty . . . Throughout My Heart, Mr. Mehmedinovic takes up the exile's perpetual investigation into memory, trying to reconcile the defining traumas of the past with the tendency of time to scrub them away: "Remembering and forgetting stand side by side, they're made of the same substance." That substance, whatever it is, pulses throughout this noble and large-souled work of literature. --Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

Though it deals with tragedy, My Heart is never depressing, partly because of the beauty of the language--expertly translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth--and partly because of its depth and honesty of emotion, its intelligence and generosity of spirit, and the precision and originality of Mehmedinovic's observations . . . [A] powerful, at once profound and charming book. --Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die. When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home. Confined to a hospital bed and overcome by a sense of powerlessness, he reflects on the fragility of life and finds extraordinary meaning in the quotidian. In this affecting autobiographical novel, Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the love he and his family have for one another, strengthened by trauma; their harrowing experience of the Bosnian war, which led them to flee for the United States as refugees; eerie premonitions of Donald Trump's presidency; the life and work of a writer; and the nature of memory and grief.

Poetically explosive and pure to the core, My Heart serves as a kind of mirror, reflecting our human strengths and weaknesses along with the most important issues on our minds--love and death, the present and the past, sickness and health, leaving and staying.

Product Details

Author:
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
23 August 2022
Dimensions:
20.85 x 14.2 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
1646221532
ISBN-13:
9781646221530
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
335.66 gm

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