The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
$43.18
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2004
Summary
A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo’s borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley’s husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this broken country, and she reluctantly agreed to accompany him. Deeply uncertain as to ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781585422937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1585422932 |
| Author: | Paula Huntley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | TarcherPerigee |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[Huntley’s] story makes for gripping, heartbreaking reading… . Stirring and nearly impossible to put down.”
About The Author
Paula Huntley
Paula Huntley is the author of the bookThe Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo. The book started out as a journal Huntley kept while she and her husband, Ed Villmoare, lived in Kosovo for eight months between 2000-2001. The stories in Huntley’s book tell of her ESL students’ life under apartheid during the 1990s as well as how her students survived the atrocious brutalities of 1998-99. Booklist said the book is full of “beautiful, soul-searching passages (that) deserve to be embraced by the world.”
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