Peter Maass
Autore di Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
Sull'Autore
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(eng) Do not combine Peter Maass with Peter Maas. They are different authors.
Fonte dell'immagine: Larry D. Moore
Opere di Peter Maass
Opere correlate
Writing War: The Best Contemporary Journalism About Warfare and Conflict from Around the World (2003) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Berkeley
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Agente
- Kathy Robbins
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Do not combine Peter Maass with Peter Maas. They are different authors.
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- Utenti
- 522
- Popolarità
- #47,610
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 16
- Lingue
- 3
Line that gave me pause, "There was even a slip of paper from the library saying they didn't posses any overdue books" (p 86). Imagine giving up everything you own, including items you don't, like books borrowed from the library. The business of the bureau for ethnic cleansing demanded Bosnians claim they handed over all worldly possessions to a Serbian. This act does not encompass the horrific violence, but rather the senseless humility.
About the violence. Most of the time I found myself twisting and twitching in my chair, wanting to turn away from the sentences of torture Maas wrote. I am one of those fat and happy and white privileged people who blissfully and ignorantly cite misunderstanding when it comes to the war in Bosnia. I was oblivious to the death and destruction with the exception of what the U.S. media decided or cared to reveal to me. What baffles me the most is that, like the Hutu and Tutsi, Serbs and Bosnians at one time got along like neighbors and family. Another war similarity from forty years earlier, like Franco denying the bombing of Guernica, Serbia denied the bombing of Bosnia was their responsibility. Death and destruction is not a macabre mirage and yet they do refuse see or own it. The practice of modern warfare with age-old atrocities was hard to read. Maas takes his time to carefully humanize the narrative by inserting personal anecdotes from his own life.… (altro)