03327cam a2200553 4500 616891253 TxAuBib 20230125120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250883537 1250883539 581e7fdb-663b-4a6c-b17d-eeafd727872b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8958987 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hemon, Aleksandar. The World and All That It Holds [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 311MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 311MB. contemporary literature. multigenerational saga. historical novels. literary fiction. Drug Addiction. books on tape. world war one. Philosophical. War Stories. audio books. audiobooks. love story. espionage. drug use. soldiers. Writers. poets. spies. LGBT. WWI. Gay. HTML:<p><b><i>The World and All That It Holds</i>—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.</b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> <b>A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</b></p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-01-24 20:00:03. Mikic, Aleksandar. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=581e7fdb-663b-4a6c-b17d-eeafd727872b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=581e7fdb-663b-4a6c-b17d-eeafd727872b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)