Volume 41, Number 8 · April 21, 1994
Homage to Bosnia
By Michael Ignatieff
Bosnia: A Short History
by Noel Malcolm
Macmillan, 340 pp., £9.99 (paper)
Sarajevo: Survival Guide
by the FAMA Collective, Sarajevo, 1993
distributed by Workman, 95 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War
edited by Rabia Ali, edited by Lawrence Lifschultz
Pamphleteer's Press, 353 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Sarajevo: A War Journal
by Zlatko Dizdarević, translated by Anselm Hollo, edited by Ammiel Alcalay
Fromm, 193 pp., $19.95
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipović
Viking, 200 pp., $16.95
Roadblocks are being bulldozed away in Sarajevo's Sniper Alley; the first streetcars since April 1992 are running in the city's streets. Schools may soon re-open; Western engineers will be deployed to restore water, gas, and electricity. On the hilltops, the Serb artillery redoubts are deserted; the snipers have left behind the lawn chairs where they used to sit, drinking plum brandy and drawing beads on the frantic blurs in the streets below.
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