A journey to the rivers
Subtitle: justice for Serbia
By: Peter Handke ; translated by Scott Abbott.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Handke, Peter -- Travel -- Serbia and Montenegro -- Serbia.; Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Biography.; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Justice for Serbia
Description: Published in Germany in 1996, A Journey to the Rivers created a firestorm of controversy, being likened, by some, to revisionist writings mitigating Nazi guilt for World War II. But that is a grave misreading of the book, for Peter Handke proffers no justification or explanations for Serbian atrocities in the Balkan conflict.

A Journey to the Rivers is, rather, both a scathing criticism of Western war reporting, which Peter Handke describes as lazy and mendacious, and a wonderfully sensitive and nuanced travelogue through Serbia.