Black ButterFly

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An ugly history and an annihilation. What started as a war for territory shifted to one of religion, with muslims being targeted. This book was an accessible introduction about how inequity works in one city. Because Dr. Brown is a professor of public health, I expected this to be a dense body of work that was hyperfocused on lead poisoning in the city of Baltimore. This was a wonderful though heart-breaking book which kept me reading all through, and one which I highly recommend. Zora is a landscape artist, obsessed with painting bridges. Following a period of ill health for her mother, Zora urges her husband and her mother to go to England to visit Zora's daughter and granddaughter. Gradually it becomes clear that what they envisage will be a temporary separation becomes something altogether more permanent as Zora is trapped in Sarajevo, a city surrounded. Neighbours and friends of differing nationalities (the author prefers this term to ethnicities) come together to survive through the toughest of times in this tale of humanity, art, community and what it takes to survive. This novel approaches the siege from a middle-aged woman artists point of view. It's also particularly well done and I was surprised how compelling it was. I just couldn't stop listening.

If anything, it has done the antithesis of spurring my dormant writer's hand into action. It has submerged the wont to a discontented winter in the far reaches of my creative mind. This book is everything… this book is for all who are breathing and for all who are no longer here. This article about a historical novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Have you ever heard of such a thing? A human chain to rescue books. A moment of coming together, of resistance. But what good did it do? They say almost two million documents burnt in there. First editions, rare manuscripts, land records, newspaper archives. Our heritage destroyed in a night. My heart broke on the Robert Williams poem, it was so pure so honest. It reminded me of all the times I watched a movie because eh starred in it, of all the smiles he drew on many faces, of all the love he spread!

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It is with this historical perspective that you can see just how extreme and intentional the discrimination has been, and how clear the impacts of it continue from the past into the present. Everything is better when done together. The taste of food and water, the touch when they hug each other hello. They’ve made it through one more day, each reunion a confirmation that they’re still alive.” War couldn’t happen here in Sarajevo. Not here where everyone loved each other, she’d told herself with the simplicity of a child.” This article about a novel of the 2000s with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender theme is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The author’s note clarifies which two persons' experiences she combined and adapted into this story. That lends a lot of validity to what would otherwise have seemed as fictional events improbable in real life.

It is haunting, powerful, deep, highly recommendable, and I'm pretty sure more than one poem will touch your soul.

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Art is also an important thread of the book. This is what Zora does and also really the way she expresses her love for the city and also her emotions towards it. Initially we see her painting its bridges and landscapes—and later the destruction and fires that take over the city. Art also ends up offering her solace, when she feels lost, for her neighbours sending their little daughter Una for lessons gives her (in fact them both) something to look forward to. Priscilla Morris took me inside the siege of Sarajevo through the eyes of Zora Kocovic, a Bosnian Serb painter, who finds herself trapped in the Bosnian capital and survives to escape during the bitter winter of 1992. In a Nutshell: An enlightening and traumatising fictional account of a war I wasn’t much aware of – the Bosnian war of the early 1990s. Well-researched, well-written, bitter-sweet.