| Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood Contributor(s): Demick, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812982762 ISBN-13: 9780812982763 Publisher: Random House OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 949.703 |
| LCCN: 2011048307 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.1" W x 8.21" (0.49 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Balkan - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, unified by their common identity as Sarajevans. Then the war tore it all apart. As she did in her groundbreaking work about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of the Bosnian War and the brutal and devastating three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo through the lives of ordinary citizens, who struggle with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings. Logavina Street paints this misunderstood war and its effects in vivid strokes--at once epic and intimate--revealing the heroism, sorrow, resilience, and uncommon faith of its people. With a new Introduction, final chapter, and Epilogue by the author |