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Loading... The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008)by Steven Galloway
Moving, touching and emotional. I use it as a Peace Education reading for my middle school students. Five stars is not enough. Author is a humble and effective speaker, also. All the adjectives - unforgettable, inspiring, exquisite, moving, elegant, gripping - apply in this must read for all people who want to connect with what it means to be human and find meaning in life when it seems all but impossible. Makes me want to re-read Man's Search For Meaning by Vikyot Frankl which I found even more powerful than Wiesel's Night If I could have given this 6 stars I would have. Beautifully observed and quite enigmatic account of life in Sarajevo during the conflict there. Life was hard for the people and this novel brought that to the page. Well worth a read.
Canadian Galloway (Ascension) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. .... With wonderfully drawn characters and a stripped-down narrative, Galloway brings to life a distant conflict.
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Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city.
Then there is “Arrow,” the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims.
Slow moving at the start. None of the characters in the novel are connected with each other, which makes it difficult to really get into the book. (