We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day Audiobook Libro.fm

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The city of Vukovar situated on Croatias easternmost periphery across the Danube River from Serbia was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked exYugoslavia in the early 90s It is referred to only as the city throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europes most celebrated young writers In this city without a name fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats and city leaders still fight to free themselves from violent crimes they committedor permittedduring the war a generation ago Now it is left to a new generationthe children now grown upto extricate themselves from this tragic place innocents who are nonetheless connected in different ways to the crimes of the past

Nora is a journalist assigned to do a puff piece on the perpetrator of a crime of passiona Croatian high school teacher who fell in love with one of her students a Serb and is now in prison for having murdered her husband But Nora herself is the daughter of a man who was murdered years earlier under mysterious circumstances And she wants if not to avenge her father at least to bring to justice whoever committed the crime

Contains mature themes