U knjizi "Moji roditelji: Uvod" Aleksandar Hemon pripovijeda priču o imigraciji svojih roditelja u Kanadu – o životima koji su okrenuti naglavačke nakon što je uslijedila opsada Sarajeva i rat u Bosni, te o novim životima koje su bili prisiljeni graditi. Opisujući brak svojih roditelja, oca Ukrajinca i majke Bosanke, i njihove živote prije i nakon razarajućeg rata koji je razorio njihovu jugoslavensku domovinu a njih otjerao u Kanadu, Hemon bilježi izbjegličko iskustvo raseljenosti. To je priča o mnogim Hemonima – njegovim roditeljima, sestri, ujacima, tetkama, rođacima – ali i o njemačkim okupacionim snagama, partizanima, raspjevanim Ukrajincima i nekolicini zbunjenih Kanađana. Kao i uvijek, Hemon pristupa općem kroz pojedinačno, pišući o svojoj bosanskoj porodici prikazuje iskrene, intimne detalje ali i dinamičnu, srčanu historiju svoje rodne zemlje.
Author
Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1992 and found that he was unable to write in Bosnian and spoke little English. In 1995, he started writing works in English and managed to showcase his work in prestigious magazines such as the New Yorker and Esquire. He is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.
