The Cellist of Sarajevo is Steven Galloway's first novel to be published in the UK back in 2008, although it is his third novel overall. Set during the siege of Sarajevo, at the height of the Bosnia/Serbia conflict, which lasted for around four years, Galloway uses a real life event to inspire his n...
Set during the siege of Sarajevo, this extraordinary book tells the tale of three normal people trying to survive a war by living each day at a time. It is incredible what humans can put other humans through and that we still have the will to go on.
The Cellist of Sarajevo is an extraordinary novel about ordinary people caught up in a war they did not want and have no control over. The siege of Sarajevo is the longest running siege in modern history, lasting from April 1992 to February 1996 and killing around ten thousand people. An average o...
During the siege of Sarajevo a bomb is dropped on a marketplace and 22 people, there in hopes of buying bread, are killed. The lead cellist of the Sarajevo orchestra vows to play his cello at this spot every day at 4:00 (the time of the bombing) for 22 days, one day for each life lost. Through the...
The book introduces you to three characters, two men and a women, as well as another man, the Cellist. Each chapter was a different character. This is one of my largest peeves with the book. I cannot stand switching characters. I've read some books where it works (The Rosetti Letter by Christi Phill...
Good book, but did drag on a bit ... always wondered what the plot was about. But then in reflection you realize that it's about how different people survive horrible things in different ways, and about the choices we make through all of that.
Parallel stories of 4 people during a 3 week period in Sarajevo during the time of the city's massacre of the early 1990s. It is surprising that the author is Canadian, as it seems to me that it appears as though it were written by a Serb. Not an uplifting story, but given the subject matter, one wo...
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