The Balkan women
By: by Jules Tasca
Edition: Samuel French acting ed.
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780573696268
Description: "This meditation on the horror of war set in 1990 brings the spirit of Euripides to a Serbian detention camp for Muslim women. Men are pitted against women, Christians against Muslims, and Croats against Serbs in a drama that bares the inner conflicts that result when society is governed by illogical ethnic hatreds. A hard-boils, devoutly Christian guard is torn by conflicting inner voices as he interrogates a prisoner and her mother about an explosion that killed sixteen of his soldiers. The arrival of a new, wounded camp commandant triggers murder and inevitable catastrophes reminiscent of ancient tragedy."--Publisher description.