The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade
Hours after NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, Jasmina Tesanovic received an e-mail from a friend in Sweden, who wanted to know how she was doing. Jasmina didn't have time to write back, so she sent entries from her diary. Her friend, the writer Ana Valdes, posted Jasmina's diary entries on the website of a magazine she wrote for. Within a week, the diaries had been posted anonymously on fifty websites and sent in e-mails throughout the world. The diary of an anonymous woman from Belgrade had become everbody's diary.

The Diary of a Political Idiot was first published as a book in Argentina and has since been translated into eleven languages. At a time when "compassion fatigue" is seen as both the cause and the unavoidable consequence of current international news reporting, Jasmina Tesanovic's wide readership is as much a testimony to the intelligence and compassion of her readers as it is to her own.
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The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade
Hours after NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, Jasmina Tesanovic received an e-mail from a friend in Sweden, who wanted to know how she was doing. Jasmina didn't have time to write back, so she sent entries from her diary. Her friend, the writer Ana Valdes, posted Jasmina's diary entries on the website of a magazine she wrote for. Within a week, the diaries had been posted anonymously on fifty websites and sent in e-mails throughout the world. The diary of an anonymous woman from Belgrade had become everbody's diary.

The Diary of a Political Idiot was first published as a book in Argentina and has since been translated into eleven languages. At a time when "compassion fatigue" is seen as both the cause and the unavoidable consequence of current international news reporting, Jasmina Tesanovic's wide readership is as much a testimony to the intelligence and compassion of her readers as it is to her own.
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The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

by Jasmina Tesanovic
The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

by Jasmina Tesanovic

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Hours after NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, Jasmina Tesanovic received an e-mail from a friend in Sweden, who wanted to know how she was doing. Jasmina didn't have time to write back, so she sent entries from her diary. Her friend, the writer Ana Valdes, posted Jasmina's diary entries on the website of a magazine she wrote for. Within a week, the diaries had been posted anonymously on fifty websites and sent in e-mails throughout the world. The diary of an anonymous woman from Belgrade had become everbody's diary.

The Diary of a Political Idiot was first published as a book in Argentina and has since been translated into eleven languages. At a time when "compassion fatigue" is seen as both the cause and the unavoidable consequence of current international news reporting, Jasmina Tesanovic's wide readership is as much a testimony to the intelligence and compassion of her readers as it is to her own.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781573447027
Publisher: Start Publishing Llc
Publication date: 12/01/2000
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jasmina Tesanovic’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Granta and The Guardian (U.K.). She is co-editor of The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia. She lives and works in Belgrade. The Diary of a Political Idiot "In recent years, many books on the Yugoslav wars have been written, largely by Western pundits, privileged by living out of the Balkan cauldron. None of them had the powerful immediacy of Tesanovic's Diary.… A remarkable book." —Aleksandar Hemon, Village Voice Literary Supplement
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