Аз още броя дните

Sarajevo, a warm night in May 1993, a year into the siege. In their kitchen, Davor, a Christian, and Ayda, a Muslim, who have kept their love alive through the ruin and madness of the city, watch the clock and wait for the short half-hour lull when the snipers rest; they have decided to run, towards freedom or towards death. Twenty years later a Bulgarian writer travels to Sarajevo to meet the Serbian translator of his book. In a tavern, as the empty bottles pile up, they start talking about the war and long-buried secrets surface. Flashbacks and interviews with killers, victims and those who were both widen the story of the young couple, modelled on a real pair the world called Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet, into a portrait of the Bosnian war.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

182 pages in the original

Genres

War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1993

First published

2016 by Ciela

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789542820710 (original)