Courtney Angela Brkic: 3 books
The Stone Fields
Love and Death in the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and although fluent in the language, she was advised to avoid letting local workers discover her ethnicity. Her passionate...
Stillness
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
A brave and unnerving debut collection about life in wartime
In 1991 a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. In her harrowing fiction debut, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a human face on the lost, the missing, the exiled, and the invisible....
The First Rule of Swimming
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A woman must leave her island home to search for her missing sister-and confront the haunted history of her family.
Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences. But when weeks pass with...