Love and Obstacles
05 March 2010Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes’ – Guardian
From the prize-winning author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles is a stunningly original collection of short fiction.
The explosive perils of adolescence, a country falling apart, the overwhelming vertigo of striking out abroad: this is life...
Details
05 March 2010224 pages
9780330521734Imprint: Picador
Reviews
If there is a more inspired writer of fiction than Aleksandar Hemon currently at work in English, I haven’t read him. Startlingly fresh and original . . . Read and rejoiceGQ
Eccentric, witty and alive with compassionObserver
Much of the wonder here is in his swaggeringly supple prose, which is by turns delectably lavish and blunt . . . Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokesGuardian
Crackles with wit and dances with inventionIndependent
