After a summer reading things my book club wouldn't enjoy (fantasy, young adult, and then some young adult fantasy!) we're back together again for the fall. Our first choice was
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. Not a happy story, but a happy choice in that it got us talking. There are three fictional narratives by people living through the Yugoslav war in the 1990s. Each of the characters react in different ways to a cellist who decides to play in the street to commemorate people killed in a bomb. We felt that the story was accessible, easy to read, and gave us a first person idea of what it would be like to live in a war zone. The theme of the redemption of art resonated with the group. Sad, but highly recommended.
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