Bosnia


The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
People of the Book
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Sarajevo Marlboro
Death and the Dervish
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Bosnia: A Short History
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Catch the Rabbit
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
The Lazarus Project
The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)
Christopher Hitchens
In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships, ranging from Austro-Hungarian occupation, the Serb- dominated Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the monstrous bloodletting of the Second World War, the communist’s hindrance of religion, and most recently the ferocious atrocities of the 1990s.
Emin Lelic, Reading Rumi in Sarajevo

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