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Madness Visible
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War | Janine di Giovanni
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Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals. This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed? Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In Madness Visible she paints an indelible portrait of the Balkans under siege and shows the true - human - cost of war.
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bookandcat
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Mehso-so

Was away this weekend so updatingw w/ what I read.
#backeurope travelogue *fictional*
Country 34: Kosovo: I visited an archeological site (Nebeske stolice) and saw scenery at Hajla and Fierza!
This book was heartbreaking to read. di Giovanni traveled in Kosovo and some other former Yugoslavia states and saw some horrific things in the ethnic wars that followed. I was terrified when she got captured and had to quickly shred her notes. 3.5/5

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Alisnazzy
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I went to the library to handle my Friend's of the Library account (some mix up happened) and I SWORE I would not add any more books to my already tall loan tower. But of course, with all the unrest happening, I decided to continue educating myself. Tower is now the height of a toddler 😅

Alfoster You HAD to do it!😜😜 7y
MicheleinPhilly True fact: If I'm going to the library to return something and I don't have holds to pick up, I will make myself leave my library card at home. Otherwise, I'm never getting through them all. BUT it is a fun "problem" to have. 7y
TheBookStacker I really want to read Missoula 7y
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pocketmermaid Missoula was so good! And horrifying. I had to sleep with my nightlight on when I was reading that book. 7y
Suet624 @MicheleinPhilly, the libraries I frequent don't ask for my library card. They know me and just check my books out. On occasion when I walk in I've asked them not to let me take out any books but they are enablers and don't stop me. 7y
AlaMich Just a little light hearted reading there 😳 7y
Kaylamburson @Suet624, that's so awesome! Haha 7y
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LLindsey
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Such an amazing book so far. I'm learning about events that happened when I was a kid and am feeling even more because of the beautiful and moving language Di Giovanni uses.

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