Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
by Barbara Demick
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0836213262
- ISBN 13
- 9780836213263
- Seller
-
Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Logavina Street is a six-block-long history lesson. To know Logavina Street is to know Sarajevo, to understand what this city was and what it has become. To know Logavina is to witness the strength and ingenuity that ordinary people can muster when they need to in order to survive.
Here, as elsewhere, the war had turned everything upside down. It had turned rich men into paupers, even light into darkness.
Before the war, residents of Logavina Street looked forward to clear, bright days to stroll downtown. Now they waited for fog and rain, which obscured them from the sniper's view. Before the war, the best homes on Logavina faced south and offered unobstructed views of lovely Trebevic, site of the toboggan and bobsled competitions in the 1984 Winter Olympics. Now, the mountain and former ski chalets were occupied by Bosnian Serbs, their big artillery guns pointing towards Sarajevo.
Synopsis
Barbara Demick is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times . Her book Nothing to Envy was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club’s award for human rights reporting as well as awards from the Asia Society and the American Academy of Diplomacy. Her coverage of Sarajevo for The Philadelphia Inquirer won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks602
- Title
- Logavina Street
- Author
- Barbara Demick
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0836213262
- ISBN 13
- 9780836213263
- Publisher
- Andrews & McMeel
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- barbara demick, logavina street, life and death in a sarajevo neighborhood, war, history, witness, survive, resident, snipers, winter olympics, bosnian serbs, artillery guns,
- Bookseller catalogs
- War; Social History;
Terms of Sale
DASHbooks
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.