A novel about the siege of Sarajevo was published this week by the British publisher Twenty7. Plot in the novel “The Longest Winter” by Kevin Sullivan takes place in Sarajevo, during three days in late 1992.
The book was promoted on Tuesday, October 18, in the bookstore Waterstones in Convent Garden, London. Translation of this novel in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian language will be published by Enkidu in November this year.
“The main characters face personal and philosophical dilemmas characteristic for each one of us, only here they must be solved a lot faster, given the circumstances and everyday life in which such decisions might result in life or death,” said Sullivan at the promotion.
“The novel aims at pointing to the fact that war sometimes brings out the worst in people, but sometimes it also brings out the best,” Sullivan said. “The Longest Winter portrays people in Sarajevo in the moment of terrible suffering, as well as in the moments of exceptional spiritual elegance”.
Sullivan, who was the spokesperson of the OHR ten years ago, later dedicated himself to the work in the International Commission for Missing Persons. During the nineties, he was following the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia as a journalist. He is married to a Sarajevo writer Marija Fekete-Sullivan, whom he met at a press conference of UNPROFOR in October 1992. They have a daughter, Katarina, and they live in Sarajevo.
(Source: klix.ba)
