Tomaso Albinoni's The Cellist Of Sarajevo

The novel The Cellist of Sarajevo takes place during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990’s that tells the story of three people trying to survive the city of Sarajevo and the sorrowing cellist who plays for the twenty-two victims who were killed by a mortar while lining up to buy bread. The cellist plays Albinoni’s Adagio at 4:00pm once a day for each of the twenty-two victims. He chooses the Adagio because an Italian musicologist retrieved remains of a score by Tomaso Albinoni that was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library. The Italian musicologist reconstructed a larger piece of the manuscript fragment. The result is very different from Albinoni’s work, but no one can deny the Adagio’s beauty. Therefore, the cellist is intrigued by its contradiction.

If someone calls her by her former name, she ignores them. She needs to be called Arrow because she is a weapon; the enemies made her a weapon. They took everything away from the people of Sarajevo; they took away humanity in Sarajevo. They killed innocent lives. Arrow works for Nermin Filipovic. Nermin usually lets Arrow pick her targets but this time Nermin orders her to protect a cellist that playing in honour of the victims of the massacre that took place in front of the cellist’s window. She reluctantly accepts. She plans where the enemy sniper would be with her gifted abilities and determines the one of three location will be he his location and plans a trap. After the first day, she notices that there was a hole in one of the locations. It’s not big enough for a gun hole but big enough to watch the cellist. Arrow doesn’t understand why he didn’t kill her. The next day, Arrow’s trap backfired, but that gives her an advantage because the enemy sniper will think she’s dead. One the third day, Arrow see’s the enemy but she can see that his finger is not on the trigger, and she realises that he’s listening to the ellist play. Arrow doesn’t want to kill him but she knows she has to. When the cellist finishes playing. She pulls the trigger. She reports back to Nermin and while she leave the building in which Nermin was exploded. The next day, she is taken to Colonel Edin Karaman. She is forced to

He picks up 6 containers to fill the water and before he leaves, Mrs. Ristovski gives him her two containers to fill up because he promised her that he would. Kenan is walking towards the brewery where he will get his water.He ends up taking a longer route because of the men on the hills. When he gets to the brewery a shell lands near the location and injures many people. He witnesses the whole situation, but he doesn’t help and ends leaving the scene. While he is coming home, he sees Ismet, an old friend. They both go to the market. While Ismet is buying rice, Kenan thinks about the woman whose daughter was killed in the bread line, wonders how many women there are like her in the city, how many people walk the streets as ghosts. He believes there must be a lot and being a ghost while you’re still alive is the worst thing. He will not be a ghost. He will not become a ghost with no hope, no life, no humanity. He will be the one who will rebuild Sarajevo, when the time comes. After four days, he prepares to go and get more water. He still doesn’t want to go but his family needs water, and he will get it for