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April 9th, 2k14 - Jeff and I are reading this for the monthly discussion at High Park Library, the TPL's online Book Buzz and one of the groups here at Goodreads.
'Twas a good read all over again.
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Comments I made when I read it in November 2k9 ...
This is a little known Canadian writer living in British Columbia and this book of his is more sensational than any novel I've read by any of the biggies . . . his style of writing, terse, to the point, wasting not a comma, bring the ...more
'Twas a good read all over again.
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Comments I made when I read it in November 2k9 ...
This is a little known Canadian writer living in British Columbia and this book of his is more sensational than any novel I've read by any of the biggies . . . his style of writing, terse, to the point, wasting not a comma, bring the ...more
Wow. This is one of those rare books that is so powerful and so moving that you can only read it in bits at a time. War-torn Sarajevo is the backdrop for the story of four very different individuals experiencing the horrors of shells and sniper fire in their neighborhoods. The cellist, one of the four whose tale is told in the book, sits outside everyday for twenty-two days playing for the lives of the men and women killed while waiting to receive bread across the street from his apartment. The
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Sad and poignant and amazing.
May 16, 2010
Garlan ✌
marked it as to-read
Aug 07, 2010
Liz
rated it
really liked it
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