The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return [Kindle Edition] Author: Kenan Trebincevic | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DMCPMRO | Format: PDF, EPUB
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At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan’s miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father’s wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he’s really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful—and shocking—than revenge.
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- File Size: 6854 KB
- Print Length: 337 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0143124579
- Publisher: Penguin Books (February 25, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DMCPMRO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,731 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I bought this book on a whim and almost didn't get it. I was driving into work one morning a week or so ago, and heard Kenan on the air with our local guys talking about his book. I was in the 20's when the Bosnian war broke out, and I really didn't know much about it or think much about it.
Kenan did a wonderful job with his narrative of what his family went through and the struggles they had to face. I was completely shocked to see this inside story of how friends had turned on him and his family because of his ethnic and religious makeup. The scary thing is, I can see this happening again in many parts of the world.
The one thing I didn't like at first with the design of the story was how it would go from current day to the 1990's. It did this many times throughout the book, and I'll admit, it really frustrated me. But what I found was that it kept me sucked into the story and wanting to know more. It also let us cheat a little and skip ahead in the book each time it came to the more present time. I think this worked well and was well executed, and coupled with his skillful writing style, I thought it was a great read.
I also loved the fact that he had a list of the names of the people in the book and who they were, same with places, and also a short translation guide on what certain words mean. I found myself flipping to these many times.
One item that I really found nice in the book was not only the list that Kenan wanted to do if/when he returned to Bosnia, but the list he made after he visited it. His first list was more on the lines of confronting, but his second list was more on the lines on thanking. You can see the change that happened and that is a good thing. A troubled soul is not a good thing to have.
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