BosniaHerzegovina

Sarajevo Blues | Semezdin Mehmedinovic

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A collection of essays and poems, this book was an early piece about the ongoing Siege of Sarajevo and the Bosnian War. A Bosnian city resident and writer living out the early ‘90s under daily sniper fire and shelling, Mehmedinovic documents what strikes him hardest amongst the existential dread and ennui of this war, from the gray hairs found in his young son‘s hair to fellow artists risking their lives to chronicle Sarajevo‘s destruction.

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Dilara

Sarajevo Blues | Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Mehmedinović wrote this book in Sarajevo, during the Bosnian war. It contains poems and essays. It's heart-breaking.

Photo of Vijećnica, Sarajevo's former city hall and library, from wikipedia. An extraordinary place that had to be rebuilt after the war.

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christhelesbian

Sarajevo Marlboro | Miljenko Jergovic

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the writing style slays

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My Palace of Leaves in Sarajevo | Marybeth Lorbiecki

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Sarajevo, 1991-1995. A city torn by war and ‘ethnic cleansing‘ targeting Muslim descents was taking place. In this epistolary novel, 10-year old Nadja writes to her cousin in the US and both exchange news. Nadja writes about how she and her family lived in fear of being bombed and killed by snipers. And letters from her cousin give them hope and encouragement in the face of war.

#MiddleGradeMarch
#ReadingEurope2020 #BosniaHerzegovina

megnews, Librarybelle, BarbaraBB, sblbooks

BarbaraBB It does sound as an important read. 5y

Megabooks I just picked this up. Sounds good! 5y

Librarybelle Sounds good, and as @BarbaraBB said, an important read! 5y

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Kalalalatja What a pretty edition for what sounds like a heartbreaking book 💔 5y

megnews I love epistolary novels. 5y

Cinfhen This one looks good / I read and loved

The Cellist of Sarajevo

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Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys | Dervla Murphy

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The previous books I‘ve read by this author have been much lighter travelogues. This one covers her journey on bicycle through the countries of the former Yugoslavia, very soon after the conflict there.

I enjoyed the meetings with ordinary people from all sides of the divide, but the political parts of this book were numerous, complicated and dense so I left this book knowing not much more than I did before.

#montenegro #readingeurope2020

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

GypsyKat I‘m loving that throw pillow! ✨ 5y

Librarybelle I second the throw pillow! 5y

squirrelbrain @GypsyKat @Librarybelle - I always get loads of love for that pillow whenever I post a picture with it in! ❤️ 5y

BarbaraBB Oh that is a pity. It sounds so good. 5y

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squirrelbrain

Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys | Dervla Murphy

#weeklyforecast (so far) - haven‘t had much time to plan yet, so I‘m sure these two will be added to....

The left hand book covers all of the Balkans but I‘m using it for #montenegro. The right-hand one, which Im almost halfway through, covers 4 European micro-states but I‘m using it for #sanmarino as I have books for the other countries.

Isn‘t my library great?! 📚👍😁

#readingeurope2020

Cinfhen

Cinfhen Wow!!! You‘re doing awesome with #ReadingEurope2020 🙌🏻💕 5y

BarbaraBB You rock! 5y

Leftcoastzen Since 1768 ! Yay ,Leeds . 5y

eraderneely Speaking of the Leeds Library, have you read the murder mystery set there?

Death of an Avid Reader

squirrelbrain Ooh no, I haven‘t @eraderneely - stacked! And of course, they have it in The Leeds Library.... 😁 5y

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