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The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Narrateur(s): Gareth Armstrong
- Durée: 5 h et 22 min
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Description
This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.
One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills 22 people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the 22 victims. The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope.
Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city. Then there is “Arrow”, the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims.
In this beautiful and unforgettable novel, Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo is a wonderful story, a tribute to the human spirit in the face of insanity." (Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley)
"A gripping story of Sarajevo under siege." (J. M. Coetzee)
“Though the setting is the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, this gripping novel transcends time and place. It is a universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.” (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns)
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Richard
- 2021-11-12
Great novel!
Loved this novel. I listened while following along with my hard copy. I found a couple of spots in the hard copy that did not match or were completely left out of the audiobook. The fifth line of page 195; there is a full sentence that is missing from the audiobook. There is also another error...
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- Marina
- 2023-05-27
Powerful book
It took me a bit to understand where it’s going, but once I did, I really appreciated the story. It’s so well written and I loved how it emphasized the humanity of people living in war by showing the impact of art on their spirit.
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- William
- 2021-03-11
It Good Book
The speaker did a good job, The story was cool by having different main characters to fallow along.
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- Jacob
- 2022-10-19
its ok
great performance by Steven but annoyingly switches between 3 different characters through out the book and 2 out of the 3 characters nothing of importance ever happens to them witch makes it kind of a boring book
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