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Jan 30, 2017spiderfelt_0 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This account of a brief event in the four-year siege of Sarajevo left me wondering how anyone survived with their sanity intact. The constant stress under which the citizens of Sarajevo lived was monumental. Told from the point of view of three different characters who observe the same individual, the eponymous cellist, the reader inhabits the city with them as they struggle to obtain the bare necessities: bread, and water. While inspired by actual events, the story is fiction. What makes this story so stunning is the way the author inhabits the various points of view with conviction. He brings to life the horror of war in a way that I have not anywhere else.