The Bosnia list
Subtitle: a memoir of war, exile, and return
By: Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
Contributors: Shapiro, Susan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780143124573
Subjects: Bosnian Americans; Family; Escapes; Bosnian Personal narratives; Muslim Personal narratives; Ethnic relations; Muslims; Travel; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: "A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47, screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan's only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan's miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father's wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he's really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful-and shocking-than revenge"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Marshal Tito in Astoria, 2009; title: Chapter One. An Indelible Lesson in Self-Defense, 1991; title: Chapter Two. Pressure Cooker, 2011; title: Chapter Three. The Last Muslim Family in Brcko, 1992; title: Chapter Four. The Reckoning, 2011; title: Chapter Five. Daca and Her Uzi, 1992; title: Chapter Six. Days of Resurrection, 2011; title: Chapter Seven. My Grandpa Murat's Karma, 1992; title: Chapter Eight. Their Side of Town, 2011; title: Chapter Nine. An Argument with My Mother, 1995; title: Chapter Ten. Finding Amela, 2011; title: Chapter Eleven. My Father's Loss, 2001; title: Chapter Twelve. Crossing Enemy Lines, 2011; title: Postscript: In Dreams Begins Forgiveness, 2012; title: The New Bosnia List : The Serbs Who Helped Save Us; title: Glossary of Names, Places, and Terms.