Full name: The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

Author: Brian Hall Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Travel, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140249231 0140249230

"A tragic portrait . . . presented with sympathy and frequently with humor . . . [of] a disparate people who were never united except by their resentment of a foreign conqueror." - Atlantic Monthly In The Impossible Country, Brian Hall relates his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims-- "real people, likeable people" who are now overcome with suspicion and anxiety about one another. Hall takes the standard explanations, the pundits' predictions, and the evening news footage and inverts our perceptions of the country, its politics, its history, and its seemingly insoluble animosities. Similar books: They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic Eastward to Tartary by Robert D. Kaplan Lies Across America by James W. Loewen Monsoon by Robert D. Kaplan Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by Jean-Benoit Nadeau The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney To End a War by Richard Holbrooke The Fracture Zone by Simon Winchester Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West Yugoslavia by Laura Silber Love Thy Neighbor by Peter Maass Kosovo by Tim Judah China Road by Rob Gifford The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett