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English
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While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
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Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"It's been twelve years since inseparable childhood friends Lejla and Sara have spoken, but an unexpected phone call from Lejla thrusts Sara back in a world of memories, language and relationships she's tried hard to forget."
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In a Croatian village near the Serbian border, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. For Harvey Gillott, now living in leafy...
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Series
Publisher
Spiderline
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the political maelstrom after Croatia and Slovenia officially declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, secret policeman Marko della Torre gets caught in an intricate web woven by the CIA and members of the Croat nationalist movement.
5) Night
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Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Tonka, a woman spending the night watching TV as she plans to leave her husband the next morning for a younger man, rails against all of society, from America to commercials, from self-satisfied married women to corrupt corporations."--Page 4 of cover.
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Language
English
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Celebrated NPR personality and acclaimed author Scott Simon is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner. This astonishing novel is based on his experiences covering the siege of Sarajevo. Teenaged Irena and her parents are forced into hiding when Bosnian Serbs launch their war of ethnic cleansing against Muslims. But Tedic, a strong-willed Muslim man, convinces Irena to become a sniper and take up the defense of her home and people. A deadly chess game, Irena's...
7) In the hold
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A Yugoslav family is caught in the turmoil of war. The cynical narrator is staying out of it, his wife's patriotic brother answers the call and is killed, and a musician friend loses an arm. But not everything is grim, the narrator's wife has given up heroin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Spiderline
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della Torre has been working both sides of the law but somewhere along the way he's crossed the line. When a corrupt cop called Strumbic helps three hired Bosnian thugs to hunt him down and kill him, della Torre makes a run for it through Croatia, Italy, and finally to London, where hell take Strumbic for all he's worth. A page-turning thriller...
10) Double image
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The adventures in love and war of photographer Mitch Coltrane. In one adventure, he becomes the object of revenge by a Balkan war lord whose crimes he recorded on film, in another he searches for a beautiful woman he saw in a photograph.
11) Monster
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Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary comics creator Enki Bilal's Monster tetralogy collected in English in its entirety for the first time ever. The Monster tetralogy is influential creator Enki Bilal's most personal work. The story follows Nike, Leyla, and Amir - three orphans born days apart, in the same bed, amidst the bombs of Sarajevo (Bilal's homeland) during the war of Yugoslavia in 1993. The lives of the three spiral off on different trajectories before bringing them...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tackling universal themes on a human scale, master storyteller Miljenko Jergovic traces one Yugoslavian family's tale as history irresistibly casts the fates of five generations....
