Steven Galloway
Författare till The Cellist of Sarajevo
Om författaren
Steven Galloway was born on July 13, 1975 in Vancouver, Canada. After completing his education, he became a professor at the University of British Columbia and worked his way up to being the acting chair of the Creative Writing Program. He is widely known for his international bestseller, The visa mer Cellist of Sarajevo, which made the iBooks bestseller list in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Galloway, Steven
- Födelsedag
- 1975-07-13
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Bostadsorter
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (birthplace)
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada - Utbildning
- University College of the Cariboo
University of British Columbia - Yrken
- teacher (creative writing at UBC and SFU)
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Recensioner
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THE WAR ROOM (1)
Best War Stories (1)
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- Verk
- 7
- Medlemmar
- 3,110
- Popularitet
- #8,221
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 287
- ISBN
- 82
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 5
Why does the author sketch any hope into this story? The Irish are a race that survived 500 years of war; their survival instinct is grounded in a tolerance for calamity, for irony and a desire to drink heavily from the tonic of denial and the relief of humor. An Irish author cannot sustain nor end a story in total despair; thus, he ultimately offers civility as war’s cure, even if fleeting as with the Cellist’s hymn. The hymn is the deliberate act that unites the central characters of the story and boosts the limp heart of the city. How he makes the cellist the center is proof to me that the Irish truly can’t tell a story the way it is, they have to make it brighter than that.
Ultimately, war has limits. Arrow, a female sniper, feels war is a job. And a liability. Eventually she will be asked to do something she does not want to do, foreshadowing her demise. (p. 57) The line is not between a just and an unjust death, but a death that doesn’t matter. In choosing her line, her time of death, she reserves a dignity where “She would not let the men on the hills decide when she went below ground. P 124
A public wake. Well, the author is indeed Irish. In playing for days on end the cellist provides this venue for public grief, he reminds people of their humanness. The purpose is not to forget. “Once we forget we become a ghost.” Like Mrs. Ristovski. Does he play ‘to stop something from happening or to prevent a worsening? “Death is not just a disappearance of the flesh. When they’re content to live with death, then Sarajevo will die.” Small civilities are worth living for.
But Arrow alone prepares to pay the ultimate price in saying no to war. In confronting death, she reclaims her name, her self and Sarajevo’s identity.
… (mer)