By focusing on one Sarajevo street, Demick is able to evoke the reality of life in the city during the war with both more accuracy and more nuance than the other books on the war, including my own
David Rieff A vivid and often searing record of the lives of the inhabitants of a single street in a capital city under siege from Serb snipers and artillery fire
New Statesman
Newly updated, this is an atmospheric description of ordinary life - and death - during the siege of Sarajevo
Sunday Telegraph
If you can read only one book about Bosnia, this should be the one
Washington Post
Demick, the author of Nothing to Envy, a great book about North Korea, also spent time in Sarajevo, when the city was besieged. I'd heard a lot about this event, but never quite understood it, until now. Demick brings it to life. A modern European city is cut off from the world. It sits in a gorge; snipers surround it, firing on the citizens. Mortar shells fall out of the sky ... Amazing
William Leith
Evening Standard
Demick, the author of Nothing to Envy, a great book about North Korea, also spent time in Sarajevo, when the city was besieged. I'd heard a lot about this event, but never quite understood it, until now. Demick brings it to life. A modern European city is cut off from the world. It sits in a gorge; snipers surround it, firing on the citizens. Mortar shells fall out of the sky ... Amazing
Scotsman
An intimate eyewitness account of how the people on her Sarajevo streets lived and felt during the Bosnian war. Moving and illuminating.
New Internationalist