Rose of Sarajevo

I kept putting off writing this review. Not because I did not like the book, far from it. It was primarily because the experience of reading this story, talking about it, is intensely emotional for me. I lived this war. Entire generations of citizens of ex-Yugoslavia have had their life path shaped......more

In the introduction to this book, the author tells us that during the siege of Sarajevo, during the war in Bosnia, that “ten thousand six hundred Bosniaks – of whom 1,600 were children – lost their lives. ”Yes, I knew about these horrible events, but I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t know more a......more

A personal novelization of the Yugoslavia Breakup Wars from the Turkish point of view. I didn’t have a horse in that race, but I’m inclined to think that things might have worked out a bit better if Yugoslavia had just hung together. The story’s good. It gives a real, human dimension to the breakup......more

The main character is a journalist which gives the author a way to communicate facts about the war. Some beauty might have been lost in translation but it is an effective book......more

Schon vor dem Lesen war ich emotional involviert. Ich weiß wie schwierig es ist die Komplexität dieses Krieges zu erklären, es ist nötig weiter auszuholen um es nachvollziehbar darzustellen, das hat die Autorin wirklich gut umgesetzt. Die Ereignisse die in den 90-er Jahren Bosnien und Herzegowina, K......more