by Steven Galloway · btb Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442738922
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«Der Cellist von Sarajevo» is the historical novel by Steven Galloway, published by btb Taschenbuch in paperback (240 pages, in German).
In besieged Sarajevo in the 1990s, a cellist witnesses a grenade killing 22 people outside a bakery. In mourning, he plays Albinoni's Adagio every afternoon for 22 days in the middle of the street. The novel interweaves his story with those of a sniper, a father, and an elderly man who listen to his music.
The work was originally published in 2008 as «The Cellist of Sarajevo»; the German translation is by Georg Schmidt. It won the Borders Original Voices Award and the OLA Evergreen Award.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about war and resistance, as well as for book clubs.
Steven Galloway is a Canadian novelist and a former professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning novel The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008).
