The Cellist of Sarajevo

• Yann Martel The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway   A grand and powerful novel about how people retain or reclaim their humanity when they are under extreme duress... Galloway's novel does the work of a good fiction: it transports you to a situation that might be alien to you, makes it familiar, and so brings understanding. While reading The Cellist of Sarajevo you are imaginatively there, in Sarajevo, as the mortar shells are falling and snipers are seeking to kill you as you cross a street. Your mind's eye sees, your moral sense is outraged: your full humanity is being exercised.

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• J M Coetzee The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway   A gripping story of Sarajevo under siege.

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• Khaled Hosseini The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway   Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place. It is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.

  Submitted Jul 21st 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• Christopher Hope The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway   For anyone who saw the Balkan wars close up, The Cellist of Sarajevo rings absolutely true. For anyone who didn't, it will be a revelation.

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