The Belgrade Five

What makes this book engaging is its setting: a country that the author describes in a preface as a place that no longer exists and belonged more to the East than to the West, but mostly to itself. The author captures beautifully what it meant to be a teenager in 1960s Belgrade, including minute details of daily life in the kafana (a type of bistro) - Kirkus Review Based on a diary, this collection of anecdotes and vignettes focuses on five high-school friends, and covers the two years they...