Hearts Grown Brutal

Sagas of Sarajevo

Roger Cohen, Roger Cohen, Roger Cohen , Cohen Roger Cohen

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Random House Trade Paperbacks
25 August 1998

Russian Revolution; English Civil War; International relations

In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.

""I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,"" Cohen writes in this masterly book, which, like Thomas L. Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb, makes us eyewitnesses at the center of historic events. In the aftermath of the Cold War, the Bosnian conflict shattered the West's confidence, reviving Europe's darkest ghosts and exposing an America reluctant to confront or acknowledge an act of genocide on European soil. Through Cohen's compelling reconstruction of the twentieth-century history that led up to the war, and his account of the war's effect on everyday lives, we at last find the key to understanding Europe's most explosive region and its peoples.

""This was a war of intimate betrayals,"" Cohen goes on to say, and in Hearts Grown Brutal, the betrayals begin in the family of a man named Sead. Through his search for his lost father, we relive the history of Yugoslavia, founded at the end of World War I with the encouragement of President Woodrow Wilson. Sead's desperate quest is punctuated by the lies, half truths, and pain that mark other sagas of Yugoslavia. Through three more families-one Muslim-Serb, one Muslim, and one Serb-Croat-we experience the war in Bosnia as it breaks up marriages and sets relative against relative. The reality of the Balkans is illuminated, even as the hypocrisy of the international response to the war is exposed.

Hearts Grown Brutal is a remarkable book, a testament to the loss of a multi-ethnic European state and a warning that the violence could return. It is a magnificent achievement that blends history and journalism into a profoundly moving human story.

By: Roger Cohen, Roger Cohen, Roger Cohen, Cohen Roger Cohen
Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 867g
ISBN: 9780812991789
ISBN 10: 0812991788
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 25 August 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roger Cohen is a columnist for the New York Times, where he has worked since 1990- as a correspondent in Paris and Berlin and as bureau chief in the Balkans, covering the Bosnian war (for which he received an Overseas Press Club prize). He was named a columnist in2009. He becameforeign editor on 9/11, overseeing Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage in the aftermath of the attack. His books includeSoldiers and Slaves,Hearts Grown Brutal, and The Girl from Human Street. He lives in New York City.