Songs From This and That Country

"Songs from This and That Country is a shocking, thoughtful novel about the complexities of family love, cultural pride, and forgiveness." — Foreword Reviews

It is 1996: a mortar shell explodes, shredding nine Sarajevan citizens, while a Canadian opera singer and others huddle together in horrified solidarity;

thirty years earlier: a mother gives birth to a caul baby, a strange child who seems able to will events into being;

forty-five years earlier: a young man returns home from the Italian ...