In war-torn Sarajevo, a cellist commits himself to play the same piece, in the same place, at the same time each day for twenty-two days to honor the twenty-two victims of a mortar shelling that he witnessed from his window. A skilled sniper is secretly assigned to protect him from anyone who might ...
This is a book about the siege of Sarajevo that lasted from 1992 until 1996, the longest siege of a city in modern times. Even if it in the book takes place under a shorter period.It's a tale about the cellist who plays for 22 days to remember the 22 victims of a shell at the bread market. He is a s...
The Cellist of Sarajevo is a book where fact and fiction blend to tell a story of ordinary people and the terror of war. Fact A cellist who has been the principal cellist of the Sarajevo Sympaathy Orchestra until the war came to the city witnesses a shelling that takes the lives of twenty two ci...
This probably isn't the best choice for someone with clinical anxiety, such as myself, considering the characters' constant awareness that they could be killed by "the men on the hills" at any moment. However, this is still a beautiful, insightful read about a war that most of us know little about.
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