Description: Twenty years of on-the-ground reportage in the grassroots struggle for normalcy and postwar return in the former Republic of Yugoslavia
Brief description: Peter Lippman, born in Seattle, is a journalist and human rights activist. A fascination with the ethnography of southeast Europe led him to Yugoslavia in the early 1980s. He lived and worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina for two years after the war, and has returned many times since then. Over more than two decades, he has closely followed the efforts of grassroots activists to return to their prewar homes, to fight corruption and discrimination, and to regain their rights.
Review Quotes: "This is a highly engaging, well-written, and factual account of postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina seen from a grassroots perspective by a researcher and a cultural outsider who demonstrates an enviable understanding of his research field. It is an exemplar of engaged and informed writing: moving and informative, evocative and profound. It is a deeply serious book, but with the light touch of an accomplished writer."
--Hariz Halilovich, RMIT University, Melbourne