num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: Nowhere Man
titlecomplete: Nowhere Man
genres: Fiction, Classics, Modern, Contemporary, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, 21st Century, Literature, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 2503
places: Chicago, Illinois, Sarajevo
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Vintage