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A tender and revealing set of stories by the uniquely delicate Bosnian writer, Alma Lazarevska. Avoiding the easy traps of politics and blame, Lazarevska reveals a world full of incidents and worries so similar to our own, and yet always under the shadow of the snipers and the bombs which we know are out there and who occasionally impinge on the story in shocking ways.
About the author
Alma Lazarevska is a Bosnian prose writer. She is a graduate of the University of Sarajevo, a city which is the subject of her collection of essays,
Sarajevo Solitaire, and is an important character in her novel
The Sign of the Rose, inspired by the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. The lead story from Lazarevska's second collection,
Plants are Something Else, was selected for the special Balkan edition of Wasafiri literary magazine.
Celia Hawkesworth is an award winning translator and Slavic scholar. Among her many translations are
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, short-listed for the Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation, and
The Culture of Lies, winner of the 1999 Heldt Prize for Translation.
Summary
A tender and revealing set of stories by the uniquely delicate Bosnian writer, Alma Lazarevska. Avoiding the easy traps of politics and blame, she reveals a world full of incidents and worries so similar to our own, and yet always under the shadow of the snipers. One of the finest works to have emerged from the tragedy of the siege of Sarajevo.
