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Stories Set in Sarajevo
Set in a river valley in Bosnia, Sarajevo crowds Ottoman bazaars, churches and mosques along the water. The 1914 assassination here that triggered World War I and the 1992-95 siege that cut the city off left a memory of ordinary life under pressure, so stories stress endurance and divided neighbours. That endurance runs through Twice Born and Do You Remember Dolly Bell?. Open Sarajevo on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 12 books, 18 movies and 3 games set in Sarajevo.
Twice Born
Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Sweet Dreams
Turin 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the…
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s under the shadow of his good but ailing father and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals.
People of the Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime:…
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Welcome to Sarajevo
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker…
Genocidal Organ
The war on terror exploded literally the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states and the developing world has drowned under a wave of…
Walter Defends Sarajevo
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove…
A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
"I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990--2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of…
Scream for Me Sarajevo
In 1994 Sarajevo was a city under siege. Mortars and rocket propelled grenades rained onto the city killing indiscriminately every day. Amongst the madness two United Nations personnel: a British military officer and…
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