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and about the ways they manage to outwit the Serb people, and the way they adjust to the horror of being forgotten by the civilized world. It is expressed with beauty, irony and humanity.
His writing is often poetic—an apt use of language when trying to express things incomprehensible and yet close to the heart of humankind. This is a book about truth, about people realizing it is up to them to survive this—I cannot call it war after reading this book. As Dizdarevic writes, “This is not a war. This is a horror that has no name. It is a black hole in the spectrum of all reasoned thought.”
To further this train of thought and challenge the thinking of those who think this is some kind of “ancient hatred” or “an eye for an eye” affair, I quote from the startling preface by Joseph Brodsky: “Evocations of history here are bare nonsense. Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history’s mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes,^ since it has no purpose. One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience. No man possesses sufficient
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