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The world and all that it holds / Aleksandar Hemon.
"From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history in the making. It tells of the relationship between Pinto and Osman, who cross the battlefields of the First World War, find love, and fight to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735247109 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2023.
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| Subject: | Gay men > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Gay fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Hemon | 31681010307403 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
From literary powerhouse Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, comes a big, brilliant, sweeping novel of love, memory, and history-in-the-making.
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo on a sunny 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. Itâs not quite the life he had expected during his poetry -filled student days in sophisticated, libertine Viennaâbut itâs nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby canât help.
And then the world explodes. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions and affection of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pintoâs introspective, poetic soul; a dapper, charismatic storyteller; Pintoâs protector and his lover.
Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death and imprisonment, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, it is Pintoâs love for Osmanâwith the occasional opiatic interludeâthat keeps him going.
The World and All That It Holdsâin all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, whimsical, philosophical gloryâshowcases Hemonâs celebrated talent at its pinnacle and cements him as one of the boldest voices of our time.
