The Bosnia List, Kenan Trebincevic
The Bosnia List, Kenan Trebincevic
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The Bosnia List
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

Author: Kenan Trebinčević, Susan Shapiro

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2022

Synopsis

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story.At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero—Kenan’s beloved karate coach—showed up at his door with an AK-47 —screaming: “You have one hour to leave or be killed!” Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan’s miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father’s wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he’s really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful—and shocking—than revenge.

About Kenan Trebinčević

Kenan Trebinčević  is a Bosnian Muslim who survived the ethnic cleansing in the Balkan War and came to the United States with his family in 1993. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, Esquire, Newsday, the Best American Travel Writing, on NPR, Al Jazeera, NY1, and the BBC. He lives with his wife in Astoria, Queens. www.KenanTrebincevic.com.

About Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro is an award-winning Jewish-American journalist and popular writing professor at New York University and the New School as well as the author/coauthor of several books including the New York Times bestseller Unhooked. Her work regularly appears in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Salon, The Atlantic, Oprah.com, Elle, Marie Claire, The Forward, and Tablet. She lives with her husband in Manhattan. 

About Fajer Al-Kaisi

Fajer Al-Kaisi is an actor for the stage and screen as well as an accomplished voice-over artist and narrator with over a hundred audiobook credits. Fajer is currently the voice of Shazzan on Jellystone (HBO Max) as well as cohost of the podcast BardQuest Empire. His TV appearances include Law & Order, Future Man, The Code, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, The Blacklist, The Onion News Network, Person of Interest, Delocated, Search Party, Madam Secretary, and Deadbeat. His film credits include "Karim" in I'll Come Running, "Ali Soufan" in The Report, and as "the interpreter" in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. His theatrical credits include: Tareq in the Guthrie's production of Nora, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Aeneas in Troilus and Cressida at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Grahm/2 in the world premiere of Informed Consent at Cleveland Playhouse, and Shahid the translator in the NYTW world premiere of Aftermath and the subsequent Arktype World tour. His additional regional credits include: The Humans, Disgraced, and The Invisible Hand. Fajer has been nominated for a Drama Leagues Award (Aftermath, Best Ensemble 2011) as well as a finalist for best male performance at the Audies (Fives and Twenty-Fives, 2015). He has also received several AudioFile Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kavita

I did not know much about the Bosnian War even though it was always in the news in the 90s. I just never paid attention to the details, being too busy with school and friends. As Kenan Trebincevic should have been. Instead, he was fighting bullets, being bullied by ex-friends, and exiled from his ho......more

Goodreads review by Fran

This may be the best book I have ever read...and I have read some good books. I bought this book on the way into the library to hear its author, Kenan Trebincevic, speak. I heard him speak and it was interesting. I came home and started to read and I have to admit I hardly put it down. I just finish......more

Goodreads review by Kellie

Last night I got shaken up by a book that I read. I've always wanted to write in a manner whereby the characters of books would follow my readers around and jolt them into thinking, but I find that I am unable to write and that characters from the books that I read follow me around and story lines j......more

Goodreads review by Nidhi

A true account of 'coming to terms' and 'making peace' with people that destroyed your childhood and made you feel homeless and abandoned in your own country. The book runs parallel with past and present contexts, former being the years 1992/93 when Balkan war raged in Europe and the Bosnian Muslim T......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin

One of the best things about having a book blog is the opportunities it creates for you to read things you might not have heard about or considered. The Bosnia List is one of those books I'm so glad I got an opportunity to read and review. Complex, nuanced, tragic, and joyful, it is a book that will......more

Quotes

“The great instruction of this important work is the author’s moral transformation that helped him replace hate with grace, if not forgiveness.” Publishers Weekly

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