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Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon

Birthname

AKA Aleksandar Hemon

Birthday September 9, 1964

Educated At Northwestern University, University Of Sarajevo

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Journalist, Novelist, Writer

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All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

— Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars

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Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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