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Title	:	The Cellist of Sarajevo
Author	:	Steven Galloway
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 235 pages
Published	:	May 15th 2008 by Riverhead Hardcover (first published April 8th 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. Canada. Music. Book Club

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This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.

One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the twenty-two victims. The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope.

Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city. Then there is “Arrow,” the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims.

In this beautiful and unforgettable novel, Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress.

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Original Title:	The Cellist of Sarajevo
ISBN:	1594489866 (ISBN13: 9781594489860)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	The cellist, Arrow, Kenan, Dragan, ویلون سل نواز, تیر, کنان, دراگان
Setting:	Sarajevo(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bosnia and Herzegovina
Literary Awards:	Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2008), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2008), Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Nominee (2009), Sakura Medal Nominee for High School Book (2010), OLA Evergreen Award (2009)

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During a siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, 22 people who were in line to buy bread are killed when a shell hits next to the bakery. It was next to a cellists apartment building, and he decided to play for 22 days, in memory of the dead, one day for each victim.In a ruined city, where people are shot when crossing the street, this is a suicide attempt. And there is a sniper watching him, and basically he can get shot at any moment. A woman sniper, Arrow, is assigned to protect him. And she

Opening line: It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort.A few years ago while I was travelling in Europe I met a guy from Sarajevo and we became friends. At one point he asked me if I knew anything about what had happened in his country. I replied that I knew very little, only what I'd seen on the news. Sasha laughed and never said another word on the subject, which at the time I found strange. Now I know why, what could he possibly say that I'd understand? This is a beautifully

The Cellist of Sarajevo is a book where fact and fiction blend to tell a story of ordinary people and the terror of war. Fact A cellist who has been the principal cellist of the Sarajevo Sympaathy Orchestra until the war came to the city witnesses a shelling that takes the lives of twenty two civilians, in defiance the cellist decides to play for 22 days in tribute to mark their deaths. Fiction Around this event the author imagines the lives of four characters and so we see everyday life through

The opening chapter of this novel was incredibly written, gut-wrenching and sadly I think the rest of the novel failed to live up to that standard. What I felt this really needed was a little bit of context. There was one scene in the novel where a Western TV cameraman is quickly setting up equipment to get a shot of the locals running away from sniper fire. One of the characters, Dragan, is overcome with a desire to remove a dead body from view of the cameraman, risking his life to prevent the

Fictional depiction of the siege of Sarajevo during the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the break-up of Yugoslavia. The novel weaves together stories of three citizens of Sarajevo. These three do not know each other. The common thread is a listening to a cellist playing Albionis Adagio in G minor for twenty-two consecutive days, one day for each person killed by a mortar blast while standing in line for bread. The cellist risks death from sniper fire to commemorate the lives of these

Recently, Ive been bemused by some ongoing commotion in my workplace over a draft blowing through some glass doors. Perhaps its because I just finished The Cellist of Sarajevo last night, but the office hubbub no longer amuses me and I think this is partly why books such as this one are fundamental. There are entirely far too many comfortable, middle-class people in their warm, dry cubicles complaining about things that dont matter. These people will never know true hardship; their cities will

3 Stars, rounded up.I held out hope for this novel because many have raved about it. But, meh... I'll say that Galloway has beautiful, lyrical prose, so the novel has that going for it. He was able to show the repetitiousness of war; there is constant shelling, constant bombing, constant fear for your life, etc. Outside of that, it really didn't get to me like it did some people. I didn't enjoy the structuring. The three narrative structure felt a little contrived, in an effort to lay down some