Author: Anna Cataldi
Publisher: Element Books, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Eighty letters of victems of the bombardment and be- sieged city of Sarajevo.

Author: Joe Kubert
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506716636
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A brand-new edition of the greatest work from comics master Joe Kubert! The astonishing true story of a family in Sarajevo, Bosnia, trapped in a city under siege as war and genocide rage around them, with only a fax machine to communicate. On the receiving end of these faxes from his trapped friend, Kubert brilliantly illustrates their struggle toward freedom against the worst kind of odds. It's the tale of a very real war, told from the perspective of innocent victims, but it's also full of strength, survival, and love.

Author: Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744739
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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One of the 25 Books That Inspired the World (1989–2014), World Literature Today A remarkable and bracing collection of “classic anti-war writing” from a Croatian writer whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander Hemon (Richard Flanagan, Booker Prize–winning author) Miljenko Jergović’s remarkable debut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In “melancholy, dreamlike” prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro “recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovic’s book is the strongest of the three” (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergović spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergović’s deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city’s young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs—the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.

Author: Elma Softic
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550138702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Translated by Nada Conic, Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo Nights is an extraordinary document of life deep inside one of the world's most war-ravaged regions. (1997)

Author: Dževad Karahasan
Publisher: Kodansha
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE Long regarded as the most magical of the European dynasties, the Rothschild family today remains one of the most powerful and wealthy in the world. No family in the past two centuries has been so constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life. Here you'll meet characters as lively as you can imagine: Mayer, long-time advisor to Germany's princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his family on the road to wealth and power; Lord Alfred, who maintained a private train, private orchestra (which he conducted), and private circus (of which he was ringmaster); Baron Philippe, whose rarefied vintages bear labels created by great artists, among them Picasso, Dali, and Haring; and Kathleen Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the "jazz baroness," in whose arms Charlie Parker died. The family itself has been at the center of some of the most crucial moments in history: the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the development of the Suez Canal, the introduction of Jews in the House of Lords. Through it all, the Rothschild name has continued to represent the family ideal: a shrewd business and financial sense, activity in the Jewish community and the arts, and an always luxurious-and often eccentric-lifestyle. Nominated for a National Book Award when it was first published in 1962, Frederic Morton's The Rothschllds is here reissued with a new afterword by the author, bringing the tale of this extraordinary family to the present.

Author: Atka Reid
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408827751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war

Author: Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 929

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Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.

Author: Janine Di Giovanni
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 9781857993332
Category : Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Zlata Filipovic
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756968199
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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The compelling firsthand account of the war in Sarajevo through the eyes of a young Croatian girl.

Author: Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 9780872863453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout...