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    <body><![CDATA[Feb. 28 update:<br/><br/>Since my trip to Whistler, where I had the chance to talk with, and listen to Steven, I have learned that the original cellist and Steven are now on good tems. Apparently, there had been misunderstandings (language barrier could easily play a role!), but now, all is well. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42007776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was skeptical of a book written about Sarajevo by someone who neither lived through the seige nor who is a Bosnian, but I was wrong. The book is a lyrical song to a city l love very much. Clearly, the author has done enormous research and spent time in the city with Sarajevans. All that aside, wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24029685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm three-quarters of the way through this powerful novel that follows the lives of four individuals trapped in the daily horrifying grip of war in Sarajevo.  What's luminous and gripping about it is how it is the first time I've read something about a war that literally makes me feel the tension/pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24709957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly AMAZING, 5 out of 5 stars, book that, simply put, everyone should read.  It follows three stories - four, if you include the cellist's - of trying to survive and retain one's humanity (literally, as in being alive and human at the same time) while living in Sarajevo during the 1992-96 siege....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40109156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Cellist of Sarajevo has received good reviews and on the surface has a lot going for it. It's well written, convincing in its detail and doesn't waste words. Three characters struggle to get by in besieged Sarajevo. Kenan walks off to get water for his family and neighbours; Dragan to get bread....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31220110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[powerful, moving novel focusing on 4 characters in Sarajevo during the siege, each making their own act of defiance and ultimately refusing to give in to hate...<br/>I didn't know a lot about the Sarajevo siege prior to reading this.  It's mind boggling that people had to live like this for YEARS i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19511744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone: read this book.  I feel so blessed and sick at the same time.  Blessed for where I live.  Sick for the ignorance that's been mine.  How many people are suffering every day while I go about my life?  As a parent I was struck by the idea of having to sacrifice your life just so that your chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36920441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been reading complex books—sung and literary books—and then began to read CELLIST, which was alarmingly simple at first in terms of words on a page, almost, in places, words plunked down, and then the storm of the story itself surged, and the horror of a place in which one cannot even safe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24560470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway is a work of fiction that was inspired by an actual event that occurred in Sarajevo in 1992.<br/><br/>In the actual story a musician, by the name of Vedran Smailovic, witnessed 22 friends and family members die from mortar fire while they were waiting to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30257919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The peaceful and beautiful cover of this book belies the ugliness of war depicted within.  Set in Sarajevo during the seige of that city, chapters alternately tell the stories of four characters as they live their lives disrupted by the snipers &quot;on the hills.&quot;  In Sarajevo, the library has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24312903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book deserves my 5 stars, because it moved me from a comfortable complacency to a place of never taking my freedom for granted.  How long this will last, I am not certain , but it has impacted me for a time. In the book, one of the characters who is scuttling through the streets, become...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41105042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this book divided the Hallam Cricket Club book club.  I liked it very much, but the general feeling wasn't at all positive. I thought it convincingly explored the daily horrors of living in the siege, and the sense of bewilderment that that haracters felt. The three characters whose perspectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49505385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a beautiful book!  It embodied the hope of the human spirit.  A story of four civilians and one sniper living in war seiged Sarajevo; the author explores the trials, feelings, and war time events a non-military person could experience.  I thought the writing was poetic, the descriptions vivid, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49054755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very crisp and austere and yet very elegant.  I do know that the story is not historically accurate -- he talks a bit about how he came to write the book in the acknowledgements.  Although the characters tended to seem like amalgams, it stilled seemed very accurate as far as characterization is conc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44555192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“The Cellist of Sarajevo” is, as a whole, a very revealing analysis of humanity.  It explains to the reader the actions and influences that war has on people in such a believable way that most readers would imagine that the author, Steven Galloway, actually took part in the siege of Sarajevo.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76484415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel tells the story of three people trying to survive in Sarajevo during the siege.<br/><br/>One day a shell lands and kills twenty-two people waiting in line for bread, as the cellist watches from a window in his apartment. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albino...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73213501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a truly exquisite book. Set in Sarajevo during the siege, it tells the separate and yet intrinsically linked tales of ordinary people living in extraordinary times. The perfectly told incidents of their mundane lives are like blood splattered silver threads, running through the crumbling cit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73083256">more...</a>]]></body>
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