{"product_id":"love-and-obstacles-isbn-9781594484612","title":"Love and Obstacles","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eLazarus Project \u003c\/i\u003e\"a dazzling collection of stories ... further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English\" (\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories of Aleksandar Hemon's \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles\u003c\/i\u003e are united by their narrator, a young man coming of age in Communist-but-cosmopolitan Sarajevo who will leave for the United States just as his city is torn asunder. In Hemon's hands, seemingly mundane childhood experiences become daring, dramatic adventures, while unique and wrenching circumstances become a common ground that involves us all. As cohesive and impressive as any novel, the short story collection \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles\u003c\/i\u003e stands with the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e as the best work of this MacArthur Genius Award winner's career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You may feel nearly giddy with pleasure at how beautifully written, funny, and entertaining [these stories] are, and at the depths of tenderness and seriousness swirling beneath their wry, deceptively offhand surface.\" -- Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marvelous and original... Hemon writes with a peculiar grace, somehow both reckless and unflinching, both troublingly absurd and absolutely precise.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The stories are scarred elegies, quickened with poetry, anger, violence, wistful love, and, throughout, Hemon's extraordinary lyric freedom.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reviewers find it difficult to resist comparing Aleksandar Hemon to Nabokov, since both men [have a] preternatural facility in their second, acquired language.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles, The Question of Bruno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNowhere Man \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the PEN\/W. G. Sebald Award, and, most recently, a 2012 USA Fellowship. He lives in Chicago.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302182441189,"sku":"NP9781594484612","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594484612.jpg?v=1767731858","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-and-obstacles-isbn-9781594484612","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}