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Author Trebinčević, Kenan, 1980-

Title The Bosnia list : a memoir of war, exile, and return / Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  949.74 TREBINCEVIC    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B TREBINCEVIC    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  949.703 TREBINCEVIC    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  949.703 T784B    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  949.742 TREBINCEVIC    Check Shelf
Description x, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Summary "A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. 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. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47, screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Trebinčević, Kenan, 1980- -- Childhood and youth.
Trebinčević, Kenan, 1980- -- Family.
Trebinčević, Kenan, 1980- -- Travel -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Personal narratives, Bosnian.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Personal narratives, Muslim.
Escapes -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 20th century.
Muslims -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Brčko -- Biography.
Bosnian Americans -- Biography.
Brčko (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- Biography.
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Shapiro, Susan.
ISBN 9780143124573 (paperback)
0143124579 (paperback)
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