With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne Seierstad

With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne SeierstadFrom the award winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. Asne Seierstad's first book, which some consider to be her best, follows thirteen Serbs whose lives were transformed over the course of sixteen months. With characteristic perception and honesty, Seierstad offers an intimate portrait of these thirteen individuals, and a

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