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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Steven Crossley. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Families -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Fiction.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1992- -- Fiction.
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Refugees -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Crossley, Steven, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781662092312 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1662092318 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14214461 |
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