STEVEN GALLOWAY
Wednesday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m.

A musician witnesses the deaths of twenty-two friends in a mortar attack and, in an act of defiance, decides to play his cello at the attack site for 22 days in their memory. This, and more, takes place in Steven Galloway's arresting novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo (Riverhead). This novel has already been warmly received in the author's native Canada, elsewhere in the U.S., and by many here at Elliott Bay, as we anticipate this visit. "Four people struggle to stay alive in war-torn Sarajevo, remembering the simple pleasures of their old routines as they settle into horrifying, desperate new ones ... Indelible imagery and heartbreaking characters give authority to this chilling story and make human a crisis overlooked in literature." - Kirkus Reviews.

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