For Sarajevo
"A tribute to Bosnia, For/Za Sarajevo includes first-person accounts of Sarajevo under siege; reports from ethnically-cleansed villages; the first American appearance of War Journal, by award-winning journalist Zlatko Dizdarević; an interview with filmmaker Ademir Kenović; art from exhibitions in Sarajevo; and selections from classic Bosnian texts: Mula Bašeskija's 18th-century Chronicle, about daily life in Sarajevo; The Dervish and Death, by Mesa Selimović; and short fiction by Isak Samokovlija. Other contributors - Etel Adnan, Adonis, Jimmy Durham, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Naomi Shihab Nye, Saskia Sassen, Alexis de Veaux - examine immigration and exile, identity and memory." -- back cover.
