THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS: Aleksandar Hemon

The novel The World and all That it Holds by Aleksander Hemon

THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS

by Aleksandar Hemon

This beautiful book is many things – a war story, an epic journey, the tale of a gentle poet caught up in the brutal tumult of history – but most of all, it is a love story.  It follows two Bosnian soulmates Pinto and Osman,  as they struggle to hold onto each other against the violent tide sweeping Europe in the early 20th Century. From Sarajevo to Tashkent, across the dessert to Shanghai, the novel traverses decades and continents, but always comes back to love as the spiritual centre of the universe. Transcendently beautiful!​

- Reviewed by Kat

 

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