My Sarajevo - Biljana, Trebevic, Rock (eBook, ePUB)

This is not a guidebook. It‘s not a novel either. It is a literary reportagea record of emotions, travels, and memories, set in a real, complex, and beautiful city: Sarajevo. The author returns to the city after many years, searching not only for places, but also for people and sounds that gave colour to his memories. The book weaves personal stories with the history of Sarajevo and its peoplecreating a narrative filled with nostalgia, irony, rock music, and the golden light of September over Bacarija. Trebevic, Ilida, the Golden Valley, Vratnikplaces from all around Sarajevo come alive here, alongside echoes of the Roman era, the Slavic Middle Ages, the Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungary, the Sarajevo assassination, two world wars, and Tito‘s Yugoslavia. And the present day. All of it set to a background of Western and Yugoslav rock, and the memory of a young girl from Sarajevo. Come and discover this remarkable corner of Europe.