Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family.
The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.
On 2 March 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the home of the city's Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him.
A cross between Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - a fresh, poignant and very funny novel about a young child caught up in the Bosnian conflict
Sarajevo, 1990. The Balkan wars are raging. Maja, living in the basement of a Sarajevo museum, endures with equal annoyance Serb artillery and vegetarian meals that taste like fried sponge. Her father, the museum director, zealously guards the treasures upstairs while their aged co-lodger Juliet plots to trade them away. Maja's mother copes with yoga while dour stepbrother Davor endures the ...
Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. But the distant murmur of war draws closer to her Sarajevo home. Her father starts to wear military uniform and her friends begin to leave the city. The pathos and power of Zlata's diary comes from watching the destruction of a childhood.
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people.