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Jozef Pronek is our Nowhere Man. He grew up in Bosnia and was a typically angsty teenager. He was inspired to pick up guitar based on a Beatles songbook and formed a Beatles cover band with some of his friend that then morphed shortly into punk then into blues. As an adult, Pronek moves to the States where he finds work and also tries to improve his English skills. Our narrator is someone who knew Pronek overseas and then again runs into him years later in America. I don't quite underst ...more
Jozef Pronek is our Nowhere Man. He grew up in Bosnia and was a typically angsty teenager. He was inspired to pick up guitar based on a Beatles songbook and formed a Beatles cover band with some of his friend that then morphed shortly into punk then into blues. As an adult, Pronek moves to the States where he finds work and also tries to improve his English skills. Our narrator is someone who knew Pronek overseas and then again runs into him years later in America. I don't quite underst ...more
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This book, published 2002, named after the Beatles song "Nowhere Man". The novel centers around the character of Jozef Pronek, a Bosnian refugee. It is about his experience in the US. The novel explores themes of displacement, exile, cultural adaptation, and the search for belonging.
Displacement; Jozef is forced to leave his home and come to the US.
Cultural adaptation: Pronek's struggles to adjust to American life, from his ESL class to his various m ...more
This book, published 2002, named after the Beatles song "Nowhere Man". The novel centers around the character of Jozef Pronek, a Bosnian refugee. It is about his experience in the US. The novel explores themes of displacement, exile, cultural adaptation, and the search for belonging.
Displacement; Jozef is forced to leave his home and come to the US.
Cultural adaptation: Pronek's struggles to adjust to American life, from his ESL class to his various m ...more
I really liked The Lazarus Project and The Book of My Lives, but all the compulsive metaphorical descriptions during a bus ride don't compel ME to read, quite the opposite, and evoke no feeling of suspense or concern in me. I like the account of the language school better. Where Hemon leaves off with all that describing, I enjoy his voice and writing a lot. For now, I've put this aside.
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