Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson.
Kennedy Journalism Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting..
Her coverage of Sarajevo for The Philadelphia Inquirer won the George Polk Award and the Robert F.
Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club\'s award for human rights reporting as well as awards from the Asia Society and the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Her book Nothing to Envy was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
With a new Introduction, final chapter, and Epilogue by the author About the Author: Barbara Demick is the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.
Logavina Street paints this misunderstood war and its effects in vivid strokes--at once epic and intimate--revealing the heroism, sorrow, resilience, and uncommon faith of its people.
As she did in her groundbreaking work about North Korea, Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of the Bosnian War and the brutal and devastating three-and-a-half-year siege of Sarajevo through the lives of ordinary citizens, who struggle with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings.
Then the war tore it all apart.
On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, unified by their common identity as Sarajevans.
For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance.
Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson
