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S.: A Novel about the Balkans

S.: A Novel about the Balkans

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ISBN10: 0140298444
ISBN13: 9780140298444
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . The writing is taut, precise, and masterful. --The Philadelphia Enquirer

Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces.

S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child--one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in the women's room of a prison camp. Through a series of flashbacks, S. relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured, and in telling her story--timely, strangely compelling, and ultimately about survival--depicts the darkest side of human nature during wartime.

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