With Their Backs to the World
Asne Seierstad
Presents an insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. This book follows fourteen Serbs whose lives were transformed over the course of sixteen months. With characteristic perception, it offers a portrait of these individuals, and a vivid study of the civil war and its aftermath.
Posted by davidfloyd (37 weeks ago ) I've read all three of her books so far. This is probably the least polished but it's still compelling. She talks to everyone from rock stars to refugees to farmers to priest to opposition politicians. It doesn't make the Serbs in general seem any less mad than their portrayed to be in the Western media in general but it does help you understand what's behind some of the stuff that's been going on there.
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I've read all of Pauline Rowson's books... said tego