State of siege
By: Juan Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Description: "A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These engimas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures."--BOOK JACKET.