Hotel Sarajevo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hotel Sarajevo write by Jack Kersh. This book was released on 1997. Hotel Sarajevo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel on the war in Yugoslavia through the eyes of a gang of children. They commandeer the ruins of a hotel as headquarters from which to raid other gangs. The narrator is Alma, 13.
Sarajevo Marlboro
Sarajevo Marlboro - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sarajevo Marlboro write by Miljenko Jergovic. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Sarajevo Marlboro available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Goodbye Sarajevo
Goodbye Sarajevo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goodbye Sarajevo write by Atka Reid. This book was released on 2011-05-16. Goodbye Sarajevo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her twenty-one-year-old sister, Atka, staying behind to look after their five younger siblings, is there to say goodbye. Thinking that they will be apart for only a few weeks, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates and months go by without contact, their promise to each other becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, far away from home and family, while Atka battles for survival in a city where snipers, mortar attacks and desperate food shortages are a part of everyday life. Their mother, working for a humanitarian aid organisation, is unable to reach them and their father retreats inside himself, shocked at what is happening to his city. In Sarajevo, death lurks in every corner and shakes the foundation of their existence. One day their beloved uncle is killed while queuing up for bread in the market square, in a massacre similar to the one three months earlier which prompted a cellist to make a lone musical protest in the deserted streets. But when Atka finds work as a translator in an old, smoky radio station, and then with a photojournalist from New Zealand, life takes an unexpected turn, and the remarkable events that follow change her life, and those of her family, forever. Set in the middle of the bloodiest European conflict since the Second World War, Goodbye Sarajevo is a moving and compelling true story of courage, hope and extraordinary human kindness.
Peacekeeper
Peacekeeper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peacekeeper write by Lewis MacKenzie. This book was released on 1994. Peacekeeper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gen Mackenzie has pretty much seen and done it all when it comes to UN peacekeeping operations. From fairly innocuous duty in the Sinai, to a more complex situation in Cyprus and Central America, to the ultimate test for the UN--the Balkans.?Gen Mackenzie's insights also highlight how the UN has adapted (or failed to adapt) to the growing complexities of multinational peacekeeping, in an age where superpower rivalries are no longer able to keep warring factions in check.?Worthy of note is the battle Mackenzie faced dealing not only with the warring factions in Bosnia, but also the warring faction's ability to utilize the omnipresent media to shape public opinion.?Mackenzie's story of the beginning of UNPROFOR should be mandatory reading for those attempting to pursue multinational peacekeeping efforts in a complex, multiethnic environment.
Flowers for Sarajevo
Flowers for Sarajevo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flowers for Sarajevo write by John McCutcheon. This book was released on 2024-01-16. Flowers for Sarajevo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young Drasko is happy working with his father in the Sarajevo market. Then war encroaches. Drasko must run the family flower stand alone. One morning, the bakery is bombed and twenty-two people are killed. The next day, a cellist walks to the bombsite and plays the most heartbreaking music Drasko can imagine. The cellist returns for twenty-two days, one day for each victim of the bombing. Inspired by the musician's response, Drasko finds a way to help make Sarajevo beautiful again. Inspired by real events of the Bosnian War, award-winning songwriter and storyteller John McCutcheon tells the uplifting story of the power of beauty in the face of violence and suffering. The story comes to life with the included CD in which cellist Vedran Smailović accompanies McCutcheon and performs the melody that he played in 1992 to honor those who died in the Sarajevo mortar blast.
