S.: A Novel about the Balkans

"... Slavinka Draculic delivered gifts to the world and delved into the twisted reality of war ... a novel of miserable power." - San Francisco Chronicle

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A Croatian journalist published a novel about the Balkans in 1999. Just seven years after Serbian military rolled up Bosnian Muslims and moved them to concentration camps, the prisoners - women and girls, men and boys - received various humiliation. Drakulić called abuse, especially "massive rape" and said "About the group of soldiers who are placing the most intimidating intimidation against groups of other people about rape, the most embarrassing means ... (Penguin Reader 's Guide, 8). But this terrible novel is gentle and some people will say a promising ending because the character S finally begins to reconstruct her human nature by accepting obstetrics. Under her immolation of rapists, S hated the growing baby in her "tumor-like" first, a parasite caused by countless savage "fathers" (2, 178 ).

From Somalia to Kosovo and Chechen it was "S: Balkan novel" how easily my compassionate sympathy came to my mind whenever the latest television picture turned over me. Go home. This book caused the terrorist incident that was forgotten, a gaze at the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995, the Serbian minority besieged Sarajevo, began to kill the Bosnian Muslim population up and down. In 1993, Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic published "Vulcan Express: Fragments Beyond the War". Like Martha Gailhorn in the early war, she sent a temporary dispatch to explain the delicate texture of everyday life from the front desk of the family. She knows that women who want to buy high heels in Sarajevo are dangerous all day long and it is difficult to contact young soldiers who may become her son.