Salvation and Other Disasters
For those who think of Bosnia as more than a word, and the  turmoil there as more tragic than a newspaper article can convey,Salvation and Other Disastersreveals another stirring element:  the Balkan tragedy as a mirror of human suffering--and an unlikely site  of occasional human joy--in every nation of the world. Like those ofEdgar Allan  PoeandO.  Henry, Novakovich's stories find the darkest ironies and give them  a twist into a brutally interrogating light.Award-winning fiction writer Novakovich is the author of several books,  among themYolkandApricots from  Chernobyl. Born in Croatia, he is now an American treasure.