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The author recalls her work in Srebrenica for the U.N. excavating the remains of thousands of people slaughtered there over a few fateful days during the Bosnian Civil War, as well as her work transcribing the words of survivors. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and although fluent in the language, she was advised to avoid letting local workers discover her ethnicity. Her passionate narrative of establishing a morgue in a small town and excavating graves at Srebenica is braided with her family's remarkable history in what was once Yugoslavia. The Stone Fields, deeply personal and wise, asks what it takes to prevent the violent loss of life, and what we are willing to risk in the process.
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