Early in the siege of Sarajevo, a cellist played Albinoni's Adagio every day for 22 days at the site where as many people had died under mortar fire while queuing for bread. Around this fact Galloway weaves the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves going about their
lives in extraordinary - and harrowing - circumstances. Apart from the first chapter (irritating) and the ending (flat), I found this deftly written, unsentimental and revealing.
(Siobhan Thomson - bwl 51 May 2009 ) |
