Logavina Street

Description:

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, unified by their common identity as Sarajevans. Then the war tore it all apart. As she did in her groundbreaking work about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of the Bosnian War and the brutal and devastating three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo through the lives of ordinary citizens, who struggle with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings. Logavina Street paints this misunderstood war and its effects in vivid strokes--at once epic and intimate--revealing the heroism, sorrow, resilience, and uncommon faith of its people.

subjects: Civilians in war,  Neighborhoods,  Bosnian Personal narratives,  Travel,  War and society,  Civilian war casualties,  Social conditions,  Personal narratives,  Yugoslav War, 1991-1995,  Biography,  History,  Yugoslav war, 1991-1995, personal narratives,  Bosnia and hercegovina, history,  Bosnia and hercegovina, biography,  Bosnia and hercegovina, social conditions

People: Barbara Demick

Places: Bosnia and Hercegovina,  Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina),  Sarajevo

Times: 20th century,  Siege, 1992-1996