About the Book

A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992--just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozef's typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, "I am complicated."
And so he proves to be--not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat more grave one with a heavily armed Serb whom he has been hired to serve with court papers. Moving, disquieting, and exhilarating in its virtuosity, Nowhere Man is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a magnetic young man stranded in America by the war in Bosnia.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 256 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0375727027

Publication Date: Jan. 6th, 2004

ISBN-13: 9780375727023

Dimensions: 5.16 x 8.00 x 0.56 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.41 lbs

• Categories: General Fiction and Literature