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"A Coin" is a 1997 short story by Bosnian-American author Aleksandar Hemon, published both as a single story in the Winter 1997 issue of Chicago Review[1] and alongside several other short stories in The Question of Bruno,[2] published in 2000.
The story follows Aida, a resident of Sarajevo throughout the Bosnian War, as she sends letters to a narrator placed in Chicago, detailing her experiences as someone deeply involved to a Bosnian who is at a disconnect from the area having left it some time before the conflict had worsened.[3]
- ^ "Front Matter". Chicago Review. 43 (1). 1997. ISSN 0009-3696. JSTOR 25304131.
- ^ Haske, Joseph Daniel (2016). "Honest Violence in Aleksandar Hemon's "A Coin"". Pleiades: Literature in Context. 36 (1): 165–167. doi:10.1353/plc.2016.0053. ISSN 2470-1971. S2CID 180710581.
- ^ Hemon, A. (1997). "A Coin". Chicago Review. 43 (1): 61–74. doi:10.2307/25304140. ISSN 0009-3696. JSTOR 25304140.