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Daisy
Oct 09, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: quit-paused-maybe-unfinished, former-yugoslavia-balkan
Strange about this book: when I am reading it, I think it's gorgeous. It's about an interesting time, the war in the Balkans recently, and the young protagonist is funny and observant. I'm only on p. 118 or so but when I put it down, I don't long to go back to it. I'm not hungry for it but I admire it when I do read it. I suppose I'll finish it, I'm just not in a hurry.

The peas were simmering away on the thank-God-we-still-have-power. Less and less light was falling through the ventilation grill ...more
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Sue Kozlowski
Oct 07, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 196-countries, z-196-read-bosnia-h
I read this novel as part of my quest to read a book written by an author from each of the 169 countries of the world. This author was born and lived in Visegrad, Bosnia/Herzegovina. He fled the country to Germany during the war when he was 14.

It is difficult for me to rate this book - I didn't understand many parts of it - and I'm sure a lot of that is because I am not familiar with the political history of the country and its wars. ...more
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Virginie
Sep 11, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Reading the world in books: Bosnia Herzegovina
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Lynne
Sep 10, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
KayG
Dec 14, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1-kindle, 1top-top
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Julia
Dec 19, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: bosnia, around-the-world
Marieke
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Amanda
Feb 06, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Maude
Dec 30, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Heather
Jan 07, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Camille
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Sanne
Jan 03, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Shawn
Oct 18, 2020 marked it as to-read
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