Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, and The Lazarus Project, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He was also the recipient of the 2011 PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. He lives in Chicago.
Aleksandar Hemon
Articles by Aleksandar Hemon
Tuesday October 25
The Noble Truths of Suffering
His head resembled an armchair—the deep-set forehead, the handlebar-like ears, the jutted jaw-seat—and I could not stop staring at it. He handed me back my passport with the invitation tucked inside and said, with his furniture-head accent: “Good evening to you.”