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    080108t20092008nyu 000 1 eng d
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    z| 9781594489860
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    a| 9781594483653 q| (trade paperback)
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    a| PR9199.3.G265 b| C45 2008
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    a| 813.6 b| GAL 2009
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    a| Galloway, Steven, d| 1975- e| author.
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    a| The cellist of Sarajevo / c| Steven Galloway.
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    a| First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
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    a| New York, New York : b| Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, c| [2009]
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    c| ©2008
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    a| xix, 235 pages ; c| 19 cm.
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    a| text b| txt 2| rdacontent
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    a| unmediated b| n 2| rdamedia
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    a| Fiction.
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    a| In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors waiting in a breadline. Then, in a flash, they are killed by a mortar attack. In an act of defiance, the man picks up his cello and decides to play at the site of the shelling for twenty-two days, honoring their memory. Elsewhere, a young man leaves home to collect drinking water for his family and, in the face of danger, must weigh the value of generosity against selfish survivalism. A third man, older, sets off in search of bread and distraction and instead runs into a long-ago friend who reminds him of the city he thought he had lost, and the man he once was. As both men are drawn into the orbit of cello music, a fourth character—a young woman, a sniper—holds the fate of the cellist in her hands. As she protects him with her life, her own army prepares to challenge the kind of person she has become.A novel of great intensity and power, and inspired by a true story, The Cellist of Sarajevo poignantly explores how war can change one’s definition of humanity, the effect of music on our emotional endurance, and how a romance with the rituals of daily life can itself be a form of resistance. c| Provided by publisher.
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    a| Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) v| Fiction.
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    a| Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 v| Fiction.
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