{"product_id":"my-heart-paperback","title":"My Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSemezdin Mehmedinovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCelia Hawkesworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Calm and contemplative, softened by melancholy humor and always alive to beauty . . . Throughout \u003ci\u003eMy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Though it deals with tragedy, \u003ci\u003eMy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die.\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetically explosive and pure to the core, \u003ci\u003eMy Heart\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSemezdin Mehmedinović \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1960 in Kiseljak near Tuzla. He studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. A poet and an essayist, Mehmedinović has held the position of an editor in newspapers, weeklies, as well as on the radio and television. He has edited a number of culture magazines and has been involved in the film industry. \u003ci\u003eSarajevo Blues\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNine Alexandrias\u003c\/i\u003e have been published among his other works. Since 1996, he has been living in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.21 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253066514681,"sku":"9781646221530","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SGJVNzREdVhZUEx4cmNXb05hYk1PZz09.webp?v=1768694229","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/my-heart-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}