The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
This book was the simple stories of a handful of unrelated people who lived through the war in Sarajevo during the 1990s. One is a sniper, one has a family who escaped to Italy, another is a father who has to provide for his family. They're all rocked from being forced to watch their beautiful city be destroyed while they dodge bullets and bombs.
There's no escape. It's just about how to make it through each day, if you don't get killed. And how to not let your thoughts destroy you before the bullets from the snipers on the hills do.
Oh! But there's a cellist. And he plays for 22 days--one day for each person who was killed by a bomb. His music is the link to the past, to a place beyond the war, to the memories of the Sarajevans before their city was a hellscape.
General consensus: So realistic it broke my heart.
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