Bosnian musician Vedran Smajlovic addresses the auditorium before playing his cello at one of the ceremonies being held to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the 44-month Bosnian Serb siege of ...

Set in war-torn Sarajevo, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Canadian Steven Galloway weaves together the stories of three characters, each in their own way effected by the war. Inspired by a 22-day ...

It is the spring of 1992 and Vedran Smailovic - former principal cellist of the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra - witnesses the deaths of 22 people. They are standing in a breadline when a mortar shell ...

Steven Galloway's third novel, set in Bosnia's capital during the civil war of the Nineties, opens with a cellist sitting by a window. He is playing Albinoni's Adagio while outside a queue of people ...

Naxos £19.99, 5hrs 28mins unabridged In 1990s Sarajevo, war is devouring people's lives. In the midst of this vividly conveyed hell of massacre and destruction, one cellist braves the snipers to play ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Twenty years ago, as mortar shells began raining down on Sarajevo, killing his friends and neighbours, Vedran Smajlovic did what he knew best to help the city: he played ...

The Canadian writer Steven Galloway was born in 1975. This is his third novel. In his afterword he identifies the inspiration for this lean and accomplished book. In 1992, not long after the beginning ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-HerzegovinaSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Twenty years ago, as mortar shells began raining down on Sarajevo, killing his friends and neighbors, Vedran Smajlovic did what he knew best ...

This is a truly exquisite book. Set in Sarajevo during the siege, it tells the separate and yet intrinsically linked tales of ordinary people living in extraordinary times. The perfectly told ...