Logavina Street
Subtitle: life and death in a Sarajevo neighborhood
By: by Barbara Demick
Edition: Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812982763; 9780679644125
Subjects: Civilians in war; Neighborhoods; Bosnian Personal narratives; Travel; Social conditions; Civilian war casualties; War and society; Personal narratives; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995; Biography; History
Description: Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, unified by their common identity as Sarajevans. Then the war tore it all apart. As she did in her groundbreaking work about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of the Bosnian War and the brutal and devastating three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo through the lives of ordinary citizens, who struggle with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings. Logavina Street paints this misunderstood war and its effects in vivid strokes--at once epic and intimate--revealing the heroism, sorrow, resilience, and uncommon faith of its people.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Andrews McMeel ... in 1996"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The People of Logavina Street (as of 1992); title: Denial; title: Orphans of War; title: A Death in the Family; title: Wizards of Invention; title: Serbs, Croats and Muslims; title: Coming of Age; title: Resistance I : The Army; title: Resistance II : Civilians; title: Awakening; title: Betrayal; title: Escape; title: Intervention; title: Return to Logavina Street; title: Epilogue.