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"A visceral depiction of the inhumanity of oppression, Songs from This and That Country is, at its core, an unforgettable story of the evocative resonance of one's past." — Don Aker, bestselling author of The First Stone It is 1996: a mortar shell explodes, shredding nine Sarajevan citizens, while a Canadian opera singer and others huddle together in horrified solidarity;thirty years earlier: a mother gives birth to a caul baby, a strange child who seems able to will events into being;forty-five years earlier: a young man returns home from the Italian front and his hair has turned snow white;600 years earlier: a young woman leaves her father, a despot under the Ottomans, to meet the witch Baba Roga from whom she learns that father and Turk are not so very different;and back in 1996: a young opera singer, estranged from her parents, sings about all of this and contemplates killing her father. Songs from This and That Country is an inter-generational story...]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:21:11 +0200