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Page 1: The Chronicle Review (4/27/12): LOGAVINA STREET

LOGAVINA STREET Life and Death in a Sarajevo NeighborhoodSpiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-8129-8276-3 | 208pp. | $16.00Also available in e-Book: 978-0-679-64412-5 | $9.99

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R A N D O M H O U S E , I N C .Finalist for the National Book AwardBA R BA R A D E M I C K

Logavina Street is a fascinatingaccount of life in Sarajevofollowing the outbreak of war in

the former Yugoslavia. Through thetales of ordinary citizens—Muslim,Christian, Serbian, and Croatians—

who describe their frightening struggles and day-to-day lives inwartime, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to lifethe story of the Bosnian War and the three-and-a-half-year siege ofSarajevo. Demick’s Sarajevo reporting won the George Polk Award,the Robert F. Kennedy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer.With a new Introduction, final chapter, and Epilogue by the author,this new edition of Logavina Street commemorates the 20thanniversary of the Siege of Sarajevo, a devastating, brutal turningpoint in a war few Americans, to this day, fully understand.

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Also by Barbara Demick

About the Author

Praise for Logavina Street:“Brilliantly captures the sense of civilian Sarajevo heroism—its pluck, irony, stoicism. . . . Focusing on one Sarajevo street, Demick is able to evoke the reality of life in the city with accuracyand nuance.” —David Rieff, Philadelphia Inquirer

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“[A] beautifully rendered portrait of Sarajevo.” —Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books

Barbara Demick is Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times andformerly bureau chief in Seoul. Her reporting on North Korea has beenrecognized with awards from the Asia Society, the Overseas Press Cluband the American Academy of Diplomacy. She joined the Times in 2001after serving as a foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer inthe Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Winner, Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionFinalist, National Book Award

NOTHING TO ENVY Ordinary Lives in North Korea“Excellent . . . a book that offers extensiveevidence of the author’s deep knowledgeof this country while keeping its sightsfirmly on individual stories and humandetails.” —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesSpiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52391-2 | 336pp. | $16.00

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