Portraits of Sarajevo

ISBN: 0880641673

Author: Dizdarevic, Zlatko

Condition: Used

From Library JournalDizdarevic is the editor of Oslobodenje, the only remaining newspaper in Sarajevo. Following his Sarajevo: A War Journal (LJ 12/93), Dizdarevic's haunting new volume gives us the people and voices of Sarajevo. Here are pen portraits, notes, reflections, memoirs, anguish-notes and letters to the outside world. Dizdarevic puts names and emotions on the story of Sarajevo. He flaunts the zest for life and flair for irony that Sarajevians have developed as they are "constantly preoccupied with the question that haunts the dreams and the reality of everyone in Sarajevo: to leave or to stay." But there is an ineffable sadness as well as a heart-breaking passage on the destruction of Mostar's historical bridge. And there is horror as well. Letters from a war zone-a war zone that we in the West have helped create. For international affairs collections.H. Steck, Univ. of Cortland, N.Y.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.Product DescriptionA collection of personal vignettes focuses on the men, women, and children of Sarajevo who have remained in their war-torn city in order to live as close to normal lives as possible. By the author of Sarajevo: A War Journal. IP.