The Cellist of Sarajevo

by Steven Galloway

Do you face the terror that must come with knowing you’re about to die for the sake of one last glimpse of life?

Dragan never understood, even before the war began, why they thought people like him were such a threat. He still doesn’t understand what killing him would accomplish, what effect it would have on anyone but him.

She has been a ghost for a long time. And to be a ghost while you’re still alive is the worst thing he can imagine.

There’s nothing in a dead body that suggests what it was like to be alive.

As long as there’s war, life is a preventative measure.