S.: A Novel about the Balkans

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 201. Red-backed cloth over white paper boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket blurb by Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN.

Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any conflict: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. Adapted into the 2010 drama film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson, and starring Stellan Skarsgård and Nataša Petrović.

"I shuddered as I read each page of this terrifying, brilliant novel. Slavenka Drakulić forced me to inhabit the soul of S., a Bosnian woman made pregnant by months of gang rape in a Serbian prison camp. Every chapter resonates with truth, horror and – remarkably, even – hope." –Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking