{"product_id":"the-world-and-all-that-it-holds-9781250321893","title":"The World and All That It Holds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World and All That It Holds\u003c\/i\u003e--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman--with the occasional opiatic interlude--that keeps him going.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleksandar Hemon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250321893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e--which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller--and \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Zombie Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several books of short stories: \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Bruno\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNowhere Man\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written the essay collections \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Parents\u003c\/i\u003e \/ \u003ci\u003eThis Does Not Belong to You\u003c\/i\u003e. Among other accolades, he has received a \"genius\" grant from the MacArthur Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN\/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He cowrote the script for \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix Resurrections\u003c\/i\u003e and produces music as Cielo Hemon. He teaches at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Aleksandar Hemon \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47876622942365,"sku":"9781250321893","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2cebdc49-8a85-4ecb-9b46-d18c5c9a6d97.jpg?v=1777383441","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-world-and-all-that-it-holds-9781250321893","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}