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Genre/Form: | War stories Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Galloway |
ISBN: | 9781594489860 1594489866 9781594483653 1594483655 |
OCLC Number: | 183267715 |
Description: | xvii, 235 pages ; 19 cm |
Responsibility: | Steven Galloway. |
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The Music of Hope
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Book Review) The Cellist of Sarajevo is a fictional account of the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. It is beautifully written by Steven Galloway and published by Atlantic Books. Its ISBN is 1843547414. The book's...
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The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Book Review) The Cellist of Sarajevo is a fictional account of the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. It is beautifully written by Steven Galloway and published by Atlantic Books. Its ISBN is 1843547414. The book's theme is the destruction and carnage of war and the fragility of life. From the three characters Arrow, Dragan and Kenan we get their different perspectives of the civil war and its daily struggles to retain humantity and survival. They long for normaility and through their flashbacks we learn what ordinary life was like in Sarajevo before the civil war.Amidst sniper shots the people travel to work or go and collect water and amidst this chaos there is a cellist. The cellist plays his music at the same spot in the bread line for 22 days where 22 people were killed. It is the music of hope and of inspiration and Arrow the counter sniper protects the cellist and thus her city and culture. Everyday basic needs like electricity and water are gone, family are suffering or in exile and yet they struggle to retain humantity and joy in the little things of life.It is a sad and moving book that transends time and place. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap.
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- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Fiction.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Fiction.
- Cellists -- Fiction.
- Snipers -- Fiction.
- Musicians -- Fiction.
- Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995 -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Tireurs isolés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Cellists.
- Snipers.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo.
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