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The World and All That It Holds

by Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Mikic
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"Narrator Aleksandar Mikic's enchanting narration gives voice to the interplay of romance and violence." - Booklist
"The audiobook is performed in epic fashion by Bosnian actor Aleksandar Mikic, whose accents and syntax embody the many people Rafael meets as he journeys from Saravejo to Shanghai in his quest to escape war and persecution."- Bookpage
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and book editor.
The World and All That It Holds—in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory—showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction.
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one 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. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective.
And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover.
Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman—with the occasional opiatic interlude—that keeps him going.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781250883537
  • File size: 326029 KB
  • Release date: January 24, 2023
  • Duration: 11:19:13

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781250883537
  • File size: 326074 KB
  • Release date: January 24, 2023
  • Duration: 11:25:09
  • Number of parts: 12
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subjects

Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

"Narrator Aleksandar Mikic's enchanting narration gives voice to the interplay of romance and violence." - Booklist
"The audiobook is performed in epic fashion by Bosnian actor Aleksandar Mikic, whose accents and syntax embody the many people Rafael meets as he journeys from Saravejo to Shanghai in his quest to escape war and persecution."- Bookpage
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and book editor.
The World and All That It Holds—in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory—showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction.
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one 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. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective.
And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover.
Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman—with the occasional opiatic interlude—that keeps him going.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction