The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living - Couverture rigide

Brkic, Courtney Angela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374207747 ISBN 13 : 9780374207748

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Brkic Courtney Angela

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she retells her family's own catastrophic history in Yugoslavia. Alternating chapters explore her grandmother's life - her childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, and imprisonment during the Second World War for hiding her Jewish lover. The movement throughout the book between the past and the present has a powerful effect, evoking belonging and nationality, what it is to feel rooted in a particular country, how its landscape forms you; and also shedding light on the roots of violence and genocide.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Courtney Angela Brkic has been a freelance translator for the UN War Crimes Tribunal, a sociological researcher and contract translator in Croatia (where her family originally came from), a forensic archaeologist in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights. She is the author of Stillness (Granta). She lives in the USA.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0374207747
• ISBN 13: 9780374207748
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316