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(E) BOOK REVIEW OF "THE STONE FIELDS"
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BOOK REVIEW OF "THE STONE FIELDS"The fantastically talented Courtney Angela Brkic wrote "The Stone Fields - An Epitaph for the Living," a book that will grab you from page one. The powerful story will make you cry, laugh, think and feel. Brkic wrote her fascinating family saga interwoven with 21st Century Croatian history. The beauty of Brkic's true story is how all of us Croatians can relate to it. A devout Catholic fam
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(E) An Epitaph for the Living By Courtney Angela Brkic
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An Epitaph for the Living By Courtney Angela BrkicSunday, August 8, 2004; Page BW02 By Jonathan YardleyTHE STONE FIELDS Farrar Straus Giroux. 316 pp. $24 In the summer of 1995 the Muslim town of Srebrenica in Bosnia supposedly was under a compromise truce brokered by the United Nations. "The Muslims would surrender their arms," Courtney Angela Brkic writes, "and the Serbs would remain at their positions without overtaking the
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(E) Tale of a Jumping Serpents
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Jumping Serpents of Bosnia By Dennis L. Siluk Aug 4, 2004 The Tale of the: Jumping Serpents of Bosnia The Snake Killer of Bosnia Along the coast of the Adriatic Sea lives what now is called the "poskok," better known as the "Jumping Serpent". These creatures are some five feet long and to my understanding can jump some three feet in the air and leap some five feet in any direction they are aiming at. But this didn't happ
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(E) Angela Brkic Invoking Mother Courage, The New York Times
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Invoking Mother Courage Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky/Farrar, Straus & GirouxCourtney Angela BrkicToday's New York Times carries the following review of Courtney Angela Brkic's new book, which is now available in bookstores....Katherine RosichBOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'THE STONE FIELDS' On the Killing Fields of Bosnia, Invoking Mother CourageBy RICHARD EDERPublished: August 6, 2004In the stony fields of Herzegovina the peasants are as horny-skin
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(E) Mostar Bridge in Architecture Week
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Mostar Bridge by ArchitectureWeek When a beloved and highly symbolic historic bridge was destroyed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the early 1990s, the whole world grieved. The single-arched Stari Most ("Old Bridge") in Mostar was erected in 1566 by architect Mimar Hajruddin at the height of the Ottoman Empire. It not only connected the city physically but, by the 20th century, had come to symbolize the coming to
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(E) Freedom From Despair - 88 minute tour de force
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Freedom From Despair - 88 minute tour de forceWritten by Derek HorneBrenda Brkusic has been traveling to Croatia alot lately, not to enjoythe revived tourism industry, but to screen her political feature filmdocumentary Freedom from Despair. The 88 minute tour de force has newsreel footage from Croatia's tormented past, interviews with variousfamily members, historians, and political activists and dramaticrecreations of their escapes from t
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(E) Courtney Angela Brkic's Story in Mercury News
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Courtney Angela Brkic's Story in Mercury NewsPosted on Sun, Aug. 01, 2004 The unburied pastBy Charles MatthewsMercury NewsMany years ago, three friends and I wedged ourselves into a VW Beetle and set out to drive through what was then Yugoslavia to the Adriatic. We didn't know how wild and beautiful and strange and lonely much of the country was, or that we would ride for hours, hairpinning through green hills and barren ones, and seldom se
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(E) Croatian National Association Helping Brenda Brkusic's film
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Croatian National Association Helping Brenda Brkusic's film Good day to all,My name is Milan Vukovic, I am the president of the Croatian NationalAssociation/Foundation (Hrvatska Narodna Udruga) headquartered in LosAngeles. Vido Artukovich, vice president of the Udruga, and I had the honorof attending the premier of Brenda's amazing film. We were so moved by itthat we recommended to the Udruga that we help Brenda by coordinatingfundraising scree
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(H,D,E) Novi umjetnici, Neue Künstler, New artists - Konture Gallery
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Novi umjetnici, Neue Künstler, New artists - Konture Gallery(HR) Radovi novih umjetnika u nasoj galerijihttp://gallery.konture.com suonline. Umjetnici poimence su Vendi Babeli (HR) i Sylvie Robert (USA).Predstavljamo i nove radove slijedecih umjetnika: Jürgen Schreiter, LeoLezcano, Aj Nadel, Fauzie As'Ad, Andreas Ender und Alejandra Tolosa.Zahvaljujem nasem webmasteru Tomislavu za dobro obavljen posao.Vlado Franjevic, kustos - www.vla
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