{"product_id":"9781921520150","title":"The Cellist of Sarajevo","description":"Author: Galloway, Steven\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781921520150\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Mar 2009\u003cbr\u003ePages: 230 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarajevo: a city under siege. As the mortars fall and the snipers conduct their deadly business, a cellist sits at his window, playing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Then a bomb kills twenty-two people waiting in line to buy bread on the street below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the next twenty-two days he will carry his cello into the cratered street at four each afternoon and play the Adagio in memory of the dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven Galloway's \u003ci\u003eThe Cellist of Sarajevo\u003c\/i\u003e imagines those twenty-two days through the eyes of three of its citizens: Kenan who sets out every few days to fetch water for his family; Dragan who longs to be reunited with his wife and son; and Arrow, a crack 'counter-sniper' who is assigned the job of keeping the cellist alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisite and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Cellist of Sarajevo\u003c\/i\u003e gives life to the courage of a broken city. It is a story about survival, about the temptation to hate and the refusal to do so, about the persistence of the human spirit in a time of fear and suffering.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48135634256030,"sku":"UBD-9781921520150","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781921520150.jpg?v=1786626179","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781921520150","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}