Flowers for Sarajevo

Author

John McCutcheon

Call Number

• JE COMPACT DISC MCCU (CEN)

Edition

CD w/Book.

Performers

Music and narration by author with special guest performance by Vedran Smailovic.

Publication Information

[Atlanta, Georgia] : Peachtree Publishers, [2017]

Physical Description

1 audio disc (approximately 1 hour) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : color illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm).

Summary

In 1992, a young boy whose father is away at war discovers, from their flower stall, the power of beauty and kindness in the wake of the bombing of Sarajevo.

Notes

Title from disc surface.

Accompanying book published: Peachtree Publishers of Atlanta, Georgia, [2017].

Accompanying book illustrated by Kristy Caldwell.

Contents

• Track 1. Flowers for Sarajevo (7:48)
• Track 2. Flowers for Sarajevo author's note, historical note, and brief biography of Vedran Smailovic (7:30)
• Track 3. "Streets of Sarajevo" (4:42)
• Track 4. Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in Gm, arranged by Vedran Smailovic (5:11)
• Track 5. Conversation with John McCutcheon (26:09)
• Track 6. Flowers for Sarajevo : story narrated by John McCutcheon with page-turn prompts (8:27).