The Cellist of Sarajevo
$24.93
- Paperback
230 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2009
Summary
Sarajevo: 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.
For 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.
Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo imagines those twenty-two days thro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520150 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921520159 |
| Author: | Steven Galloway |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 197mm x 218mm |
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About The Author
Steven Galloway
Steven Galloway was born in Vancouver in 1975. His debut novel, Finnie Walsh, was nominated for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His second novel, Ascension, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and translated into seven languages. It was published in Australia by Text. He lives in Vancouver with his family.
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