![]() ![]() ![]() Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. 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. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. 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.Īnd then the world explodes. Today I talked to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023).Īs 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. ![]()
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