"A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s--a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who live there--whether Muslim, Croat, or Serb--push the barriers aside....

Jozef Pronek, a young man from Sarajevo who stayed in the United States and watched the war on television, journeys from Sarajevo to the Soviet Union, Shanghai, and Chicago as he deals with the complexities of adolescence.

True story of Ervin Rustemagic and his family trapped in the 1992 siege of Sarajevo. This graphic novel is based on the multitude of faxes Rustemagic was able to send out to Kubert and others.

"Tells the story of two women brought together by the galvanizing forces of war and imagination. Anne is a privileged writer living in Cambridge and still tormented by a brutal act from her past. Ana is a cosmopolitan Muslim poet living in Sarajevo and enjoying a comfortable middle-class existence. Both are irrevocably changed when the peace of Sarajevo is shattered by snipers' bullets."--Jacket.