A review by dlarain
S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić

To be honest, I do not feel able to leave a rating for this book. Rating it implies that I either like it or dislike it. Most of the time I hated everything about this book. I hated the scenes of the rape of S. and the other girls in the women's room. I hated the torture where they carved up A.. I felt physically sick when it talked about the forced rape of boys by their fathers. Everything about this book made me uncomfortable. However, I think this is also one of the reasons why S. is so important. Because it's about acknowledging the atrocities of war and not turning a blind eye to the victims when it is within your power to do something. Not finishing this book would have meant I bought into only acknowledging those aspects of war that I wanted to. So I will simply leave it at the statement that this is an IMPORTANT read.