{"product_id":"sarajevo-days-sarajevo-nights-9781886913103","title":"Sarajevo Days  Sarajevo Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarajevo Days  Sarajevo Nights is an extraordinary document of life deep inside one of the worlds most war-ravaged regions. Until the spring of 1992  when she was thirty  Elma Softic led a relatively ordinary  happy  middle-class life. She lived with her parents and sister  taught philosophy at a business college  and enjoyed the typical cafe life of a cosmopolitan city. When the Serbs began bombing that spring  Elma began a diary  her attempt to bear what seemed increasingly unbearable  to stay focused while living in a state of siege. Eventually  she \"got sick of it. The war was no longer something to put oneself out for.\" Rather  what she needed was a listener  someone to talk to about day to day life in Sarajevo. Through ham radio correspondence  she made new friends in Zagreb  who asked her to put her observations on paper in the form of open letters. It was these letters  first passed hand to hand  then reaching an ever-larger public in Croatia and throughout Europe  that created a sensation with their eloquent  sometimes stunning descriptions of modern life - a life not unlike our own - rendered primitive by war. Published in Canada for the first time in English and now available to readers in the United States  Sarajevo Days  Sarajevo Nights is a collection of Elmas diaries and letters  dated April 1992 to June 1995. With a novelists eye for detail and a natural storytellers gift for narrative  she gives clear and compelling voice to a place  a conflict and a life that are  for the most part  unthinkable  unspeakable and unimaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932286320693,"sku":"ByrdShop_1886913102","price":495.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781886913103.jpg?v=1794222670","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sarajevo-days-sarajevo-nights-9781886913103","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}