LOVE AND WAR IN BOSNIA

Category Literature & Fiction
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 295

ISBN: 978-93-5702-004-6
Pages: 216 pages
Date: 5th February 2023

ABOUT THIS BOOK

‘With great reverence, i spread flowers on the skull, brought soil from the surroundings and made a grave for it. it was clear that she had been tortured. i also knew that there would never be a trial for the killing of this girl, but i felt we, as human beings, had done our duty.’
Bosnia is reeling under the effects of the Bosnian War and large-scale ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks. Beaten and destroyed, the country needs to be brought back to life with care and compassion. Sabyasachi, a disillusioned and exhausted police officer of West Bengal cadre, lands in Bosnia on deputation duty with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.

Suzanne, a language assistant working with the UN Mission in Bosnia and a true-blue Bosnian, has experienced the war first-hand and has a past that still haunts her.
The two meet in the gloomy winter landscape of Bosnia and fall in love. Will the ghosts of the
war-torn country let their love endure?

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

For the past undisclosed amount of years, Humayun Kabir has thoroughly bucked the system. He lives in sunny Kolkata, having spent most of his childhood in a remote village in West Midnapore in West Bengal. After completing his PhD, he joined in the State Civil Service and subsequently the Indian Police Service and served as the subdivisional police officer in several subdivisions. Afterwards, he served as the superintendent of police of several districts. His last role was as police commissioner of Chandannagar before he resigned and joined politics.

During his successful police career, Dr Kabir was an achiever, amassing a slew of impressive gruesome crimes solved, associated with controversy and political activities of the state.

Since childhood, he has been fond of writing short stories and has written a few novels in Bengali. Love and War in Bosnia is his first English-language fiction novel, based on his experiences as a part of the peacekeeping and restructuring force with the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the year 2001–02.
When he’s not writing, he can be found reading the news, engaging in social service and enjoying meaningful conversations with friends.