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The Stone Fields

At twenty-three years old, forensic archaeologist Courtney Brkic joined a UN-contracted team excavating mass grave sites in eastern Bosnia. She was drawn there by her family history- her father is Croatian – and she was fluent in the language. As she describes the gruesome work of recovering remains and transcribing the memories of survivors, she retells her family`s own catastrophic history in Yugoslavia. Alternating chapters explore her grandmother`s life – her childhood in Herzegovina, early widowhood, and imprisonment during the Second World War for hiding her Jewish lover. The movement throughout the book between the past and the present has a powerful effect, evoking belonging and nationality, what it is to feel rooted in a particular country, how its landscape forms you; and also shedding light on the roots of violence and genocide.

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