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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 949.7024092 EAN: 9780970421036 ISBN: 0970421036 Label: Panisphere Books and Audio Manufacturer: Panisphere Books and Audio Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2003-10 Publisher: Panisphere Books and Audio Studio: Panisphere Books and Audio Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: At 15, Jasmina Dervisevic had typical teenage problems. How could she talk to the boy she liked without making a fool of herself? Would she find the right shoes to wear to the high-school party? She had heard the old stories about World War II, when neighbor turned against neighbor, but she seldom gave them a second thought. That had all happened ages ago, and she was living in a modern Yugoslavian city where Serbs and Muslims were close friends. Then Yugoslavia began to break apart. The national army turned its guns against its own people, and Jasmina had to grow up fast. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Emotionally Powerful Book for the ClassroomThis is the best account of the effects of war on a normal civilian that I have ever read and I've read hundreds of accounts on war! While "Anne Frank's Diary" and other accounts might be more detailed or more literary, they often fail to set the stage moving from "normality" to the realities of war and don't capture the many varied experiences of civilians such as staying in your home, fleeing as a refugee, and undergoing a siege unlike "River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet." This is a first ... Read More Rating: - The river runs salt, runs sweet: a memoir of Visegrad, BosniVery honest.Tuching. After reading this book, I was thinking of Jasmina few weeks. Strong women. Vahdeta Rating: - A clear-eyed look at the worst, and best, of human nature"How do we suvive the things that happen to us, these horrible things? By taking this moment, and then the next one, one at a time. By telling our truth without being broken to pieces by the difference between what our lives once were and what they had become." --from "The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet" This memoir of a Bosnian girl who comes of age during the disintegration of Yugoslavia is a fascinating story but, even more, it is an important piece of literature, in the tradition of ... Read More Rating:  - Terrible!!!This is honestly the worst book I have ever read. Just the thought of the author makes me nauseous. I strongly recommend that no one purchase this book. Rating: - A fascinating, sobering perspectiveI thoroughly enjoyed this book and even when I wanted to put it down, because it was so troubling to read, I couldn't do so because I was quickly engulfed by the story. I was hooked immediately by the clear pure voice of Jasmina. As she describes her home town and her life there before the war, I was struck by the sereneness of the town and the love and sense of belonging everyone who lived there had. The nightmare that followed is unbelievable. To read a first person account tears out ... Read More 
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