Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living

Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living

Courtney Brkic
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Author:  Courtney Brkic
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  288
Publisher:  Granta Books
Year:  2004
ISBN:  9781862076570

Twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history-her father is Croatian - and she was fluent in the language. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she re-imagines her family's own catastrophic history in Yugoslavia. Alternating chapters explore her grandmother's life - her childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, and imprisonment during the Second World War for hiding her Jewish lover. The movement throughout the book between the past and the present has a powerful effect, evoking belonging and nationality, what it is to feel rooted in a particular country, how its landscape forms you; and also shedding light on the roots of violence and genocide.

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Twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia, drawn there by her family history. This is a book belonging and nationality and sheds light on the roots of violence and genocide.