Sarajevo: Survival Guide [Paperback]

Miroslav Prstojevic (Author), Zeljko Puljic (Author), Maja Razovic (Author), Aleksandra Wagner (Author), Bora Cosic (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994

"A dead-on parody of a hip travel guide". -- The Washington Post. Royalties from the sale of the book go to FAMA Foundation to help build a future for the children of Sarajevo.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Serbo-Croation

Product Details

• Paperback: 95 pages
• Publisher: Workman Pub Co (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563056887
• ISBN-13: 978-1563056888
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,521,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Travel > Europe > Bosnia, Croatia & Herzegovina

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sarajevo 1993, April 25, 2011

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William Garrison Jr. (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sarajevo: Survival Guide (Paperback)

"SARAJEVO: SURVIVAL GUIDE" by various authors: Aleksandra Wagner, Bora Cosic, Maja Razovic, Miroslav Prstojevic, Zeljko Puljic (1994), paperback, Workman Pub Co., 95 pages in English. From the book: "Providing a unique insight to the Art of Survival in a besieged city; by portraying once sophisticated urban environment, in the midst of emerging post-cataclysm, whose 300 000 inhabitants were creating something out of nothing in order to survive and preserve their dignity. It is a Chronicle, a guide for survival, a part of the future archive which shows the city of Sarajevo not as a victim, but as a place of experiment where wit can still achieve victory over terror. As Sarajevo Survival Guide can teach you how to survive the Post-cataclysm! The Guide to Sarajevo was written in Sarajevo between April of 1992 and April of 1993. This manuscript is part of a multifold project by FAMA, triggered during the siege of Sarajevo. FAMA is an independent producer which in the prewar period anticipating the changes of the emerging post-communism worked primarily in audio/video media, buying TV time on state television. FAMA has introduced a new genre for TV audiences - a political entertainment which was a shock for a public used to the repressive treatment of politics as something deadly serious. During the war, in the besieged city, under the fire of shells and snipers, in conditions impossible for life and work, FAMA began the conceptualization of several projects with artists and intellectuals. The Guide Book to Sarajevo intends to be a version of Michelin, taking visitors through the city and instructing them on how to survive without transportation, hotels, taxis, telephones, food, shops, heating, water, information electricity. It is a chronicle, a guide for survival a part of a future archive which shows the city of Sarajevo not as a victim, but as a place of experiment where wit can still archive victory over terror, the surreal "The Day After", contemporary SF, the scene of factual "Mad Max 5". This book was written at the site where one civilization was dismantled in the course of intentional violence, and where another one had to be born the one of 21st Century. It is the picture of civilization that emerges out of cataclysm, which makes something out of nothing, gives some messages for the future. Not because the future is necessarily a future of wars and disasters, but because humans are growing older and being born into a world which is ever less secure."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Extract from Books on Bosnia, London 1999, March 13, 2000

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Bosnian Institute "bosinst" (Bosnian Institute, London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sarajevo: Survival Guide (Paperback)

A sardonic mock-Michelin Guide to a city under siege, containing an extraordinary mixture of useful information, chilling factual statement, ironic observation and almost unbearable black humour