Impossible Country: Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia - Hardcover

Hall, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436200325 ISBN 13: 9780436200328

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

An account of the journey made by the author through Yugoslavia in the spring and summer of 1991, as Croatia and Slovenia were sliding into civil war. Recalls the attitudes of the people drawn from conversations Hall had with farmers, artists, defence fighters and politicians. First published in 1994.

About this title

From the Back Cover

'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which allows him to write of extremely serious matters without solemnity; he knows how to convey a great deal in a few words' Sunday Telegraph

'He is an observant and witty writer...you believe implicitly that he has met the people he writes about, and that they said what he quotes them as saying' Sunday Times

'The Impossible Country...is much more than travel literature. Hall may be reporting on the context of the war rather than the events, but he is reporting nonetheless. His rich grasp of history and sense of argument take his writing beyond its genre' Literary Review

About the Author

Brian Hall was born in 1959. He grew up in Massachusetts and attended Harvard College. After two years spent travelling in Western and Eastern Europe, he wrote Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in South-Eastern Europe, and a novel set in Vienna, The Dreamers. From 1989 through 1991 he made several trips to Yugoslavia, in preparation for writing The Impossible Country. He currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0436200325
• ISBN 13: 9780436200328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480