The World and All That It Holds
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As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had once expected, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf can't put in perspective.
And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. War devours all that Pinto has known, and the only thing he has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; Pinto's protector and lover. Together, Pinto and Osman will survive near-certain death, will 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 and his daughter Rahela that keeps him going. An epic story that spans decades and continents, The world and All That It Holds is Aleksandar Hemon's "majestic, ambitious masterpiece" (Financial Times).