Antonia Lloyd-Jones Libri

This is a searing portrait of the human devastation wrought by the Bosnian wars, and their aftermath - told through the stories of those who are left alive and looking for their families and their remains - by a young writer who has all the makings of a Kapuscinski or a Gourevitch.This book is suitable for readers of Philip Gourevitch, Janine Di Giovanni, Timothy Garton Ash, Slavenka Drakulic, Fergal Keane, Michael Ignatieff, Anna Funder, Misha Glenny.During four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial and mourning could begin. For many, the waiting, the searching and the suspended grieving still continues.Here we travel through the ravaged post-war landscape in the company of a few of those who survived, as they visit the scenes of their a hall where the clothing of victims is displayed; an underground cave with its pale jumble of bones; a camp for homeless refugees; a city now abandoned to the ghosts of painful memories; and a funeral service where a family finally says goodbye. These encounters are snapshots and memorials, capturing a jagged moment in a community's history as it is still flinching from its raw and recent past, not quite yet able to believe in a possibility of a peaceful future.

After a tough psychotherapy session, Henryk Telak is found dead with a roasting spit in his eye. State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, feeling weary and disillusioned, is assigned the case, which becomes a turning point in his life.

Janina Duszejko, insegnante d’inglese e appassionata delle poesie di William Blake, è un’eccentrica sessantenne che preferisce la compagnia degli animali a quella degli uomini e crede nell’astronomia come strumento per porre ordine nel caos della vita. Quando alcuni cacciatori vengono trovati morti nei dintorni del suo villaggio, Janina si tuffa nelle indagini, convinta com’è che di omicidi si tratti. Con la sua prosa precisa e pungente Olga Tokarczuk ricorre ai modi del noir classico per virare verso il thriller esistenziale e affrontare temi come la follia, il femminismo, l’ingiustizia verso gli emarginati, i diritti degli animali: surreale, acuto, melanconico, sconcertante, il suo romanzo interroga il presente anche quando sembra parlare di tutt’altro.