Love & Obstacles

In the reading of Love & Obstacles, I found a lot of events that took place unconnected which made it sometimes difficult to understand its importance. I found myself recalling the fact that the story itself is based on the notes he once took in his journey from the train ride to Murska Sabota and back home... In the midst of reading this story, I questioned what the significance was of the riddle that was told by the Sarajevan male in the beginning. Sometimes I felt that parts of the riddle reflected some of the notes the young boy took. For example the Sarajevan mentioned in the riddle that something smelled of dung and straw and machine oil- both things were noted exactly among the few instances I caught.

For Alexsandar Hemon to write such a short story, I felt like he left it incomplete for some odd reason. After researching the book a bit, I realized it is part of an actual book. Longing for the reveal for who the boy actually was in the story, I thought it was Alexsandar himself. While I have not found the truth, I read that Hemon was a Sarajevan native...

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