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"'Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place. It is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner * 'A grand and powerful novel about how people retain or reclaim their humanity when they are under extreme duress...While reading The Cellist of Sarajevo you are imaginatively there, in Sarajevo, as the mortar shells are falling and snipers are seeking to kill you as you cross a street. Your mind's eye sees, your moral sense is outraged: your full humanity is being exercised.' Yann Martel * 'Galloway's style is sparse, pared down; his prose has the deceptive simplicity of a short story. The work of an expert, The Cellist of Sarajevo is a controlled and subtle piece of craftsmanship.' - Observer * 'Startlingly good... With prose as unsentimental and deadly as gunfire, Galloway superbly captures the tense existence of a city under siege where daily tasks become a gamble between life and death, yet where a single note of music can exert a power equal to any bomb or bullet.' - Metro"
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Ein Musiker trotzt dem Irrsinn des Bürgerkriegs in Sarajevo: Inmitten der Ruinen, dem feindlichen Beschuss ausgesetzt, spielt er auf seinem Cello das Adagio von Albinoni, zweiundzwanzig Tage lang.
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Der Roman "Der Cellist von Sarajevo" basiert auf einer wahren Begebenheit. 1992 wurden während der Belagerung Sarajevos bei einem Mörserangriff 22 Menschen getötet und zahlreiche weitere verletzt. Sie hatten in einer Schlange vorm Bäcker auf Brot gewartet. Ein Cellist spielte darauf hin 22 Tage lang genau an der Stelle des Mörsereinschlags, um der Toten zu gedenken.
Diese Begebenheit nimmt der Kanadier Galloway zum Anlass, die Auswirkungen einer Belagerung auf die eingeschlossenen Bevölkerung literarisch nach zu zeichnen.
Der Autor schildert den Alltag dreier Figuren in der eingeschlossenen Stadt. Die junge Frau Strijela, eine Scharfschützin im Dienste der Stadtverteidiger, begleitet er auf ihren Feldzügen und zeigt ihre zunehmenden Zweifel an ihrer Tätigkeit. Der ältere Herr, Dragan, hat Frau und Kind rechtzeitig aus der Stadt gebracht und irrt nun allein durch die Stadt. Kenan hingegen muss seine drei Kinder und seine Frau versorgen. Seine schwierigste Aufgabe ist es, alle vier Tage Wasser von der einzig sauberen Quelle am anderen Ende der Stadt zu holen.
An jeder Straßenkreuzung können Scharfschützen lauern. So wird jeder Gang aus dem Haus zu einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind. Und natürlich verändert diese permanente Bedrohung, der ewige Existenzkampf die Menschen. Das Gros der Bewohner denkt in erster Linie an sich, ist nur bedacht auf das eigene Überleben. Eine Minderheit entwickelt hingegen ungeahnte Kräfte.
Wie immer sich ein junger Kanadier in diese Menschen eindenken kann, Galloway ist hier ein außergewöhnliches Buch gelungen. Die Verletzung von Körper und Seele, die Verzweiflung über die Welt und die Zweifel an sich selbst, all das schildert er mit viel Reife und Tiefgang. Ein wichtiges Buch über einen wichtigen Krieg in unser aller Nähe, den wir all zu schnell aus unserem Bewusstsein verdrängt haben.
Luchterhand Literaturverlag in der Verlagsgruppe Random House 2008
Diese Begebenheit nimmt der Kanadier Galloway zum Anlass, die Auswirkungen einer Belagerung auf die eingeschlossenen Bevölkerung literarisch nach zu zeichnen.
Der Autor schildert den Alltag dreier Figuren in der eingeschlossenen Stadt. Die junge Frau Strijela, eine Scharfschützin im Dienste der Stadtverteidiger, begleitet er auf ihren Feldzügen und zeigt ihre zunehmenden Zweifel an ihrer Tätigkeit. Der ältere Herr, Dragan, hat Frau und Kind rechtzeitig aus der Stadt gebracht und irrt nun allein durch die Stadt. Kenan hingegen muss seine drei Kinder und seine Frau versorgen. Seine schwierigste Aufgabe ist es, alle vier Tage Wasser von der einzig sauberen Quelle am anderen Ende der Stadt zu holen.
An jeder Straßenkreuzung können Scharfschützen lauern. So wird jeder Gang aus dem Haus zu einem Kampf auf Leben und Tod gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind. Und natürlich verändert diese permanente Bedrohung, der ewige Existenzkampf die Menschen. Das Gros der Bewohner denkt in erster Linie an sich, ist nur bedacht auf das eigene Überleben. Eine Minderheit entwickelt hingegen ungeahnte Kräfte.
Wie immer sich ein junger Kanadier in diese Menschen eindenken kann, Galloway ist hier ein außergewöhnliches Buch gelungen. Die Verletzung von Körper und Seele, die Verzweiflung über die Welt und die Zweifel an sich selbst, all das schildert er mit viel Reife und Tiefgang. Ein wichtiges Buch über einen wichtigen Krieg in unser aller Nähe, den wir all zu schnell aus unserem Bewusstsein verdrängt haben.
Luchterhand Literaturverlag in der Verlagsgruppe Random House 2008
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"Tense," "Haunting," "Elegiac"
21. Juni 2008
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This is a novel so well-written and thought-provoking that not only did I read it in one sitting, but the very next night I read it again. I would encourage everyone to read the excerpt available via the Search-Inside feature, for it introduces the 28-year-old female sniper who goes by the pseudonym Arrow "so that the person who fought and killed could someday be put away." So riveting is her thinking and so powerful the last sentence of the novel that her story will stay vividly with me for a lifetime.
Other reviews, including the excellent one from the Washington Post (click on "See all editorial reviews"), have rightly focused on the characters around which the novel is centered. But also compelling is the plight of the city itself. Although Sarajevo became familiar to me during the Olympic games, one does not need to have seen the pre-war city to shudder at what happened to it. As one of the characters takes circuitous routes to get to his work and food, he recalls its past as he's faced with its present: "Every day," he muses, "the Sarajevo he thinks he remembers slips away from him a little at a time, like water cupped in the palms of his hands, and when it's gone, he wonders what will be left. He isn't sure what it will be like to live without remembering how life used to be, what it was like to live in a beautiful city." Or, I thought, what it would be like to try to cope with the destruction of wherever one lives, whatever the cause. In more ways than one, the author of "The Kite Runner" was absolutely correct when he called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" a "universal story."
NOTE: When I went online to find out more about Vedran Smailovic, the man who did indeed play for 22 days at the site where 22 people had been killed in Sarajevo, I discovered a fascinating article in the London Times which details at length the cellist's extreme displeasure at finding his photograph on the original dust jacket of this book and his privacy thus invaded. The article, which also includes author Steven Galloway's reaction to Smailovic's dismay at being used as a character in a work of fiction, is most easily accessed by going to the external links under the entry for Smailovic in Wikipedia.
NOTE: For those who, after reading this novel, are interested in learning more about life during the siege of Sarajevo, see my note about Scott Simon's Pretty Birds: A Novel in comment #6. Additionally, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo Revised Edition provides a 13-year-old girl's poignant non-fiction account. For those wondering about other books the author of "The Cellist..." has written, yet another memorable read awaits in his Ascension: A Novel.
Other reviews, including the excellent one from the Washington Post (click on "See all editorial reviews"), have rightly focused on the characters around which the novel is centered. But also compelling is the plight of the city itself. Although Sarajevo became familiar to me during the Olympic games, one does not need to have seen the pre-war city to shudder at what happened to it. As one of the characters takes circuitous routes to get to his work and food, he recalls its past as he's faced with its present: "Every day," he muses, "the Sarajevo he thinks he remembers slips away from him a little at a time, like water cupped in the palms of his hands, and when it's gone, he wonders what will be left. He isn't sure what it will be like to live without remembering how life used to be, what it was like to live in a beautiful city." Or, I thought, what it would be like to try to cope with the destruction of wherever one lives, whatever the cause. In more ways than one, the author of "The Kite Runner" was absolutely correct when he called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" a "universal story."
NOTE: When I went online to find out more about Vedran Smailovic, the man who did indeed play for 22 days at the site where 22 people had been killed in Sarajevo, I discovered a fascinating article in the London Times which details at length the cellist's extreme displeasure at finding his photograph on the original dust jacket of this book and his privacy thus invaded. The article, which also includes author Steven Galloway's reaction to Smailovic's dismay at being used as a character in a work of fiction, is most easily accessed by going to the external links under the entry for Smailovic in Wikipedia.
NOTE: For those who, after reading this novel, are interested in learning more about life during the siege of Sarajevo, see my note about Scott Simon's Pretty Birds: A Novel in comment #6. Additionally, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo Revised Edition provides a 13-year-old girl's poignant non-fiction account. For those wondering about other books the author of "The Cellist..." has written, yet another memorable read awaits in his Ascension: A Novel.
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A Haunting Novel
15. Mai 2008
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Steven Galloway's spare novel The Cellist of Sarajevo will be haunting me for a long time. I honestly couldn't tell you when a work of fiction made me stop and think so hard about the world we live in.
As the novels opens, the siege of Sarajevo is underway, and 22 innocent civilians have just died from a shelling attack while they were waiting in line to buy bread. The eponymous cellist watched it all from his window. They were his friends and neighbors. For reasons never explained (and without need of explanation) the unnamed cellist decides he will play an adagio on the spot of the attack for the next 22 days.
This small gesture of beauty in the midst of senseless violence and horror makes the man a target. The attackers of the city, described only as "the men on the hill" will want to make a lesson of him--though exactly what that lesson is I'm not sure. The military men defending the city want the cellist protected. They assign that job to the second of four central characters the novel revolves around. She is a sniper, going only by the name Arrow. She was once a happy student at the University, but now she is a weapon in human form. Every day she struggles with her personal moral compass.
The third character is Kenan, a mild-mannered husband and father. The gauntlet he runs every few days is the long trek across town to collect fresh water for his family. No one is Sarajevo is safe. Every time they step outside, they are facing death (although staying inside is no safer with buildings being bombed daily). Kenan's terror at leaving home is echoed by the fourth character, Dagnan, a baker on the way to work who is literally paralyzed by the prospect of crossing the street. If he crosses the street, will he be shot? If he doesn't cross the street, how will he eat?
The characters in this novel are living in a world gone mad. And it wasn't decades ago. It wasn't a third world country. It was barely a 12 years ago in a major European city. I was a young adult at the time, largely ignoring the news. Reading this (mercifully) short, profoundly moving story sent me to the history books trying to understand what this conflict was about. I still don't understand. But this novel gave me a new comprehension of what war really means. Galloway brought war into a world very familiar to me. It kept me awake at night. This is a novel that should be read by all thinking people.
As the novels opens, the siege of Sarajevo is underway, and 22 innocent civilians have just died from a shelling attack while they were waiting in line to buy bread. The eponymous cellist watched it all from his window. They were his friends and neighbors. For reasons never explained (and without need of explanation) the unnamed cellist decides he will play an adagio on the spot of the attack for the next 22 days.
This small gesture of beauty in the midst of senseless violence and horror makes the man a target. The attackers of the city, described only as "the men on the hill" will want to make a lesson of him--though exactly what that lesson is I'm not sure. The military men defending the city want the cellist protected. They assign that job to the second of four central characters the novel revolves around. She is a sniper, going only by the name Arrow. She was once a happy student at the University, but now she is a weapon in human form. Every day she struggles with her personal moral compass.
The third character is Kenan, a mild-mannered husband and father. The gauntlet he runs every few days is the long trek across town to collect fresh water for his family. No one is Sarajevo is safe. Every time they step outside, they are facing death (although staying inside is no safer with buildings being bombed daily). Kenan's terror at leaving home is echoed by the fourth character, Dagnan, a baker on the way to work who is literally paralyzed by the prospect of crossing the street. If he crosses the street, will he be shot? If he doesn't cross the street, how will he eat?
The characters in this novel are living in a world gone mad. And it wasn't decades ago. It wasn't a third world country. It was barely a 12 years ago in a major European city. I was a young adult at the time, largely ignoring the news. Reading this (mercifully) short, profoundly moving story sent me to the history books trying to understand what this conflict was about. I still don't understand. But this novel gave me a new comprehension of what war really means. Galloway brought war into a world very familiar to me. It kept me awake at night. This is a novel that should be read by all thinking people.
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Could have been great...
26. Juli 2008
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I bought this book in an airport and read it in almost one sitting. The subject, historical facts, and excellent cover reviews from esteemed authors made it a must read for me.
Why 3 stars only? The story framework is laid out ingeniously, the characters well picked and presented, beautiful images, the telling goes well and tension builds up to a point... and then... then there's not much more unfolding. I got the same images and thoughts, repeated in elegiac tone and not bringing additional value to the story.
If you don't know much about the events in the 1990s in Bosnia then you can probably enjoy the story for its universal values. But if you've followed the events it's hard to get transposed into a poetic state of mind and keep it till the end of the story. I had a co-worker, in 1993-1995, who had recently fled Sarajevo with one daughter to Canada. The rest of their family had been killed. It was incredible to see the tension building in this educated, intelligent, and warm person in an unexpected contact with another co-worker, who happened to be from the "other side". I expected (I wished) the book to achieve a more forceful message.
As a coincidence, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb army leader and war criminal, was caught a few days ago,
Why 3 stars only? The story framework is laid out ingeniously, the characters well picked and presented, beautiful images, the telling goes well and tension builds up to a point... and then... then there's not much more unfolding. I got the same images and thoughts, repeated in elegiac tone and not bringing additional value to the story.
If you don't know much about the events in the 1990s in Bosnia then you can probably enjoy the story for its universal values. But if you've followed the events it's hard to get transposed into a poetic state of mind and keep it till the end of the story. I had a co-worker, in 1993-1995, who had recently fled Sarajevo with one daughter to Canada. The rest of their family had been killed. It was incredible to see the tension building in this educated, intelligent, and warm person in an unexpected contact with another co-worker, who happened to be from the "other side". I expected (I wished) the book to achieve a more forceful message.
As a coincidence, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb army leader and war criminal, was caught a few days ago,
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