Cellist of Sarajevo

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This novel brings insight into the Siege of Sarajevo and into all wars. The story focuses on the people involved in one event, a cellist pays tribute to 22 people killed while waiting in a breadline by playing Albinoni's Adagio on the street for 22 days honoring the 22 who were killed. The story is not about the cellist; it is about the woman who protects him from snipers, a man who must go out in fear to get water for his family and his neighbor, and an old man, a baker who stays in the city, brings bread to his sister's family and tries to imagine Sarajevo in better times. It is about ordinary people in tense and troubled times.

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