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Stillness

Stillness

by Courtney Brkic (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

In 1991, a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. Here, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a huiman face on the lost, the missing, the exiled and the invisible, from all sides of the conflict.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 1862075719
ISBN 13: 9781862075719

Media Reviews
[An] astonishing literary debut...Brkic's prose never wavers. It remains stalwart, exact, brutal, and grittily poetic. --Newsday
An unflinching approach...She has a gift for shaping complicated, absorbing characters...A provocative and all-too-timely look at the ravages of war. -- The Washington Post Book World
The impression we're left with after reading Stillness is one of respect for Brkic's seriousness, her sympathy, and her spirit. --Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
Haunting...They detonate in the mind. -- Los Angeles Times
Harrowing...[Brkic] has effectively captured the horrors of fleeting moments in the lives of people trapped by aimless wars.... The power of these Balkan stories is undeniable. -- Richmond Times-Dispatch
Author Bio
Courtney Brkic is a graduate of the NYU MFA programme, which she attended as a New York Times fellow. She has been a freelance translator for the UN War Crimes Tribunal, a sociological researcher and contract translator in Croatia (where her family is from), a forensic archaeologist in Bosnia-Herzogovina, and a volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights. She divides her time between Arlington, Virginia, and New York City.