The Cellist of Sarajevo

from moukayedr

This brings home the reality of war and how difficult it is to retain hope in a crumbling city, while struggling daily to survive random death. Death comes to you in a shell while buying bread or in a sniper shot while crossing the street to fill water bottles. The characters resist all of this a...

from Romonko

I listened to this book on audio, and it was very well done by Gareth Armstrong. It is a snapshot of 22 days during the Bosnian war which actually lasted from 1992 to 1995. It illustrates so clearly in sparse and beautiful prose what a city and its citizens go through when they are caught in the ...