Aleksandar Hemon on how his parents fled the Siege of Sarajevo and started a new life in Canada

Writers and Company

English - June 23, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
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The Bosnian-American writer talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his two new works, My Parents and This Does Not Belong to You, which explore his parents' memories of displacement, his own identity and the very nature of storytelling itself.