false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171510110m/104231.jpg 104231 1 A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. <br><br> In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this broken country, and she reluctantly agreed to accompany him. Deeply uncertain as to how she might be of any service in a country that had seen such violence and hatred, Huntley found a position teaching English as a Second Language to a group of Kosovo Albanians in Prishtina. <br><br> A war story, a teacher's story, but most of all a story of hope, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal Hunt-ley kept in scattered notebooks or on her laptop over the eight months that she lived and worked in Kosovo. When Huntley asked her students if they would like to form an American-style "book club," they jumped at the idea. After stumbling upon a stray English-language copy of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Huntley proposed it as the club's first selection. The simple fable touched all the students deeply, and the club rapidly became a forum in which they could discuss both the terrors of their past and their dreams for the future. <br><br> <i>The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo</i> is a compelling tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. 100502 2 2 2004 The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo total:113|5:24|4:39|3:41|2:9|1:0| 113 417 176 28 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jul 25 19:00:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 19:01:27 -0700 2009 and trash dumped in the street
and racial hatred, Kosovo doesn't
sound like a great place to visit.
But when Paula Huntley's husband
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My one critique - of the author, not the book itself - is that in spite of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 31 12:27:50 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 12:35:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 00:56:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 00:59:10 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Sep 29 11:42:47 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 11:48:24 -0700 2009 Once 4 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Dec 15 17:26:23 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 17:27:10 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jun 02 16:52:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 16:54:53 -0700 2007
I found the descriptions of how the people there feel about their f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 20:28:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 20:29:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 14:38:38 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 10:24:31 -0800 2009 It's the story of a woman who goes with her husband to Kosovo for a year after the war; she teaches English first just as something to do while she's there, but the book is actually a collec...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Aug 03 17:46:56 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 17:50:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 18:40:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 19:53:25 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=104231