Aleksandar Hemon

THE LIVES OF OTHERS I. WHO IS THAT? On the evening of March 27, 1969, my father was in Leningrád, USSR, in pursuit of his advanced electrical engineer-ing degree. My mother was at home, in Sarajevo, deep in labor, attended to by a council of her women friends. She had her hands on her round...

Overreachers Madeleine Granville was standing at the hotel window of the Queen Elizabeth II, trying to decide which tiny car far below on Mansfield Street was her yellow Saab. Henry Rothman was tying his tie in front of the mirror. Henry was taking a plane in two hours. Madeleine was staying...