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The Stone Fields : an Epitaph for the Living by Brkic, Courtney Angela, 1972- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"The massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, during which more than seven thousand people were killed, remains the most brutal act of genocide in Europe since World War II. In The Stone Fields, Courtney Angela Brkic, the author of Stillness, recounts in prose how she joined a forensic team working in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina. She excavated the bodies of people killed in the massacre, assisted pathologists with autopsies, and arranged personal effects for photographing. In those items - the hand-knit socks, mended shirts, and half-destroyed photographs - she found more than proof of indiscriminate murder, however. Where some saw only nameless victims, she discerned men with individual histories, as well as families who were waiting for them." "Brkic has woven together her lyrical elegy to the region's recent dead with her Croatian family's story she tells of her grandmother's childhood in a Herzegovinian village surrounded by harsh limestone hills, her early widowhood and subsequent move to Sarajevo, and her imprisonment during World War II for hiding her Jewish lover. The saga culminates years later when Brkic's father escapes from Communist Yugoslavia." "The Stone Fields explores how th

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Author

Brkic, Courtney Angela, 1972-

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374207748

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.05 / 5 (84 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14