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x, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm |
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volume rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Marshal Tito in Astoria, 2009 -- Chapter One. An Indelible Lesson in Self-Defense, 1991 -- Chapter Two. Pressure Cooker, 2011 -- Chapter Three. The Last Muslim Family in Brcko, 1992 -- Chapter Four. The Reckoning, 2011 -- Chapter Five. Daca and Her Uzi, 1992 -- Chapter Six. Days of Resurrection, 2011 -- Chapter Seven. My Grandpa Murat's Karma, 1992 -- Chapter Eight. Their Side of Town, 2011 -- Chapter Nine. An Argument with My Mother, 1995 -- Chapter Ten. Finding Amela, 2011 -- Chapter Eleven. My Father's Loss, 2001 -- Chapter Twelve. Crossing Enemy Lines, 2011 -- Postscript: In Dreams Begins Forgiveness, 2012 -- The New Bosnia List : The Serbs Who Helped Save Us -- Glossary of Names, Places, and Terms. |
| Summary |
"At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out, and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Kenan's only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan's miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father's wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he's really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful-and shocking-than revenge"--Back cover. |
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Trebincevic, Kenan, 1980- -- Childhood and youth.
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Trebincevic, Kenan, 1980- -- Family.
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Trebincevic, Kenan, 1980- -- Travel -- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Personal narratives, Bosnian.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Personal narratives, Muslim.
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Escapes -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- History -- 20th century.
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Muslims -- Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Brčko -- Biography.
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Bosnian Americans -- Biography.
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Brčko (Bosnia and Hercegovina) -- Biography.
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Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Shapiro, Susan.
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| ISBN |
9780143124573 (paperback) |
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0143124579 (paperback) |
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