Nowhere Man (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375727023)

A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992--just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozef's typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, "I am complicated."

And so he proves to be--not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat more grave one with a heavily armed Serb whom he has been hired to serve with court papers. Moving, disquieting, and exhilarating in its virtuosity, Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
ISBN-10: 0375727027
ISBN-13: 9780375727023
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/25/2004 pg. 24