S.: A Novel about the Balkans

S. was in Karolinska Hospital, Sweden, where she gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to take care of him. On the next bed, May worried and shocked, but she did not know the trauma of the concept of baby. This is S in March, 1993. Let's spend the summer of last year at the prison camp in Bosnia. She could not guess which of the men who raped her was the baby 's father. When she was lying on the bed in the hospital, S I shot a compliant woman shocked on the bus from the day the soldiers gathered residents of the village of Muslim B in the summer of 1992 I remember that. I remembered that she lived in the camp, and talked about rumors that E., a nurse, a patient, and a "female room", "a woman was raped as a Serbian soldier, she was a woman" did. "Room"; I developed the need for surviving rape and inhumane acts, forgotten protection, but I could not forget the other women in the room, their struggles, scars, death. She was a teacher, parent, and sister who lived in Sarajevo in my previous life, but they were gone, if she was with her she will cease to exist. In the non-personal world of women, this novel is a journalist and a novelist Draculic (Balkan Express; male preference), a word about the horrible story about the suffering of an unknown prisoner at the camp and the reconstruction after liberation It is done. Attempt at life (February)

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, to Chechen, whenever the latest television picture turned over to me, how easy my compassionate sympathy came to my heart go back to the "S: Vulcan novel" house. 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.

September 3: Olivia Manning and her husband Reggie Smith arrived in Bucharest, where he signed an English education contract with the British Council. Some of their lives follow the development described in the novels "The Balkan Trilogy" and "Levante Trilogy" after Manning in parallel with some of the things in the life of Darrel. Mid September: According to Robin Fedden's proposal LD, Nancy and Stephanides will be dispatched as temporary staff of the information service department of the British Embassy until the new chairman dismisses the department and those who were spoken of Greek will retire did. Nancy is pregnant. Katsimbalis also introduced LD to Emmanuel Royidis' s novel "The Pope Joan".