Letters to the celestial Serbs / Gojko Berić ; translated by Saba Risaluddin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berić, Gojko, 1939-

Language:

Bosnian

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Former Yugoslav republics.

Citizenship.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Former Yugoslav republics.

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Saqi Books in association with the Bosnian Institute, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Bosnian.

Summary:

In this book, ex-communist Gojko Beric reflects with irony at his ex-Yugoslav countrymen, noting the absurdities of ethnic conflict as well as its tragedies. Beric spent parts of the war away from Sarajevo, in Ljubljana, and uses his absence to observe from abroad the pain of distance and the shock of return. He was one of a small number of chroniclers and commentators of that period and constant themes in the book are those of citizenship, belonging and the city. His book is about the dark, bloody, final decade of the 20th century in the former Yugoslavia.

Notes:

"Originally published in Bosnian as Pisma nebeskom narodu by Oslobođenje, Sarajevo, c2000"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0863567312

OCLC:

49784334