Author: Steven Galloway
Translator: Dal-im Woo
Publisher: Munhakdongne
Hardcover | 325 pages | 196*137mm
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About This Book
A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of
the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity
in a city ravaged by war.
In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are
ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a
musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a
breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an
act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the
site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory.
Elsewhere, a young man leaves home to collect drinking water for his
family and, in the face of danger, must weigh the value of generosity
against selfish survivalism. A third man, older, sets off in search of
bread and distraction and instead runs into a long-ago friend who
reminds him of the city he thought he had lost, and the man he once was.
As both men are drawn into the orbit of cello music, a fourth
character—a young woman, a sniper—holds the fate of the cellist in her
hands. As she protects him with her life, her own army prepares to
challenge the kind of person she has become.
A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, The
Cellist of Sarajevo poignantly explores how war can change one¡¯s
definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance,
and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of
resistance.
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