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Sarajevo Blues

Sarajevo Blues

Mehmedinovic, Semezdin
Alcalay, Ammiel

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 087286345X
ISBN13: 9780872863453
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.46 Width: 4.98 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists' siege and was active throughout the war in the city's resistance movement, as one of the editor's of the magazine Phantom of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of 1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka egzil-abc series, published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers and translators under siege or living in exile. Semezdin Mehmedinovic says that writing is, finally, quite a personal thing that doesn't make much sense unless you are practicing for the last word. For those Bosnians emerging from the siege or still in exile, these last words remain intimate possessions, one of the last bastions left against the commodification of tragedy.

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