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...
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...
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