Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9780593801857

タイトル: Black Butterflies著者: Priscilla Morris出版社: Knopf出版日: 2024年08月20日新しい本新古品・未使用品。
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SHORT-LISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s--a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art. "A reflective novel about dark times that tells us life goes on, love stories develop, humanity remains in the most inhumane of times." --Irish Independent Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who live there--whether Muslim, Croat, or Serb--push the barriers aside. When violence erupts and becomes, finally, unavoidable, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety in England. She stays behind, reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a few weeks. As the city fall．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る