Aleksandar Hemon (Sarajevo, 1964) is a prominent Bosnian-American writer. He has published collections of stories The Bruno Question , Love and Obstacles , and The Book of My Lives , novels Man Without a Past , The Lazarus Project , and How Zombie Wars Were Made , and memoirs This Is Not Yours and My Parents . He has won numerous awards. He teaches at Princeton University. Bejturan and the Rose is his latest novel.

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