A young cellist watches from his window as 22 neighbors, waiting in a bread line, are killed by a mortar attack during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war of the 1990s. For 22 days, in an effort ...

America is starkly different from the streets of Sarajevo where a cellist risked his life to play Albinoni's Adagio in the spot where 22 people were killed in an attack in the 1990s. In the Bosnian ...

An artist's solitary heroism amid the madness of war inspired headlines around the globe. Now, more than 15 years later, it has inspired a much-praised debut novel by a writer who lives in New ...

(AP) Twenty years ago, as mortar shells began raining down on Sarajevo, killing his friends and neighbors, Vedran Smajlovic did what he knew best to help the city: he played his cello at funerals, in ...

Canadian Galloway (Ascension) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. After a mortar attack kills 22 people waiting in line to buy bread, an ...

The Friends of the Boniuk Library will host a Breakfast Book Club for a discussion of The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. In this novel, a musician plays to commemorate a mortar attack as ...

Everyone has some form of a coping mechanism. Some write all of their feelings down in a journal. Others talk it out and try to overcome what is bothering them. For those of us who have a companion in ...

America is starkly different from the streets of Sarajevo where a cellist risked his life to play Albinoni's Adagio in the spot where 22 people were killed in an attack in the 1990s. In the Bosnian ...