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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia [Paperback]

Asne Seierstad (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; Tra edition (17 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0465076025
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465076024
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,174,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This book is part travelogue and part social and political document, giving voice to Serbs...a vivid and vital image of life in the country during and after its civil war."

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* From the author of the international bestseller THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - a fascinating and vivid account of the lives of fourteen Serbian people --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having recently read several books on Croatian and Yugoslavian history from 1920 onwards, I found this book was riveting and a real page turner. It helped to provide perspective on some of the drier plain histories, and is a must-read book (even if you are not particularly interested in Yugoslavian history). It is highly perceptive.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Recommended reading! 29 Dec 2006
Format:Paperback
I read this book this summer before a visit to Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia, with practically no knowledge of the recent war in Yugoslavia. I found the book really interesting, and a helpful way to develop a basic understanding. The author visits several different people in mainly Serbia, of different ages/gender/political opinion at regular intervals, which I find more engaging than a political history from the author's point of view. In a way I wish I had read the book when I was in Serbia or on my return when I had spoken to a few people out there about it, but hey. If you find factual accounts a bit dry and like to hear from local people about their views I would recommend this!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I began this book with only a hazy idea of what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s. I finished it with a much clearer overview and a desire to learn more about Serbia and the other Balkan nations.

Asne Seierstad focuses on the lives of several individual Serbians, who vary in age, profession, political views and experiences, between 1999 and 2004.

The experiences these individuals have been through and the views expressed by some of them are quite shocking to read about and it is clear that Seierstad often disagrees with her interviewees, but she writes about them sympathetically, presenting a very human portrait of a nation that has been badly thought of in recent years.
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