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A moving and poignant chronicle of the siege and destruction of Vukovar in 1991 through 57 short "postcard" chapters. Pavličić does not write from the perspective of an "ordinary" Zagreb resident who spent the summer of 1991 in Vukovar, and then followed
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way.
These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany.
The novel The Forgotten Girl is based on the real life of a member of New York's posh circles, who fought for the rights of Kunić, a group of women who survived the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War