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While most war novels deal with what happens at the front lines, Steven was able to write a gripping novel portraying how war affects the citizens living within it. His main starting point for creating the novel was the cellist’s reaction of a devastating mortar attack killing 22 civilians waiting in line to buy bread. After the cellist saw this, his reaction was to play his cello in the carnage for the next twenty-two days, for those who died. The song he plays is called Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. He will play this while being watched by two snipers, one working to defend him; and the other working to kill him. In the novel, the author creates four characters, the cellist, the baker, a man named Kenan forced to walk miles to get water twice a week, and a sniper named Arrow who was hired to defend the cellist from assignation. The novel will explore the lives of the characters as they live through the war of sarajevo, examining the tasks they have at hand which include; fetching water for an elderly person, and taking medication to a citizen who can no longer fetch it themselves. Everyday putting their lives in danger to fulfill these tasks. While in the end all that was left in the ruins of ruins was a four bar Albinoni Adagio, that may not have even been by Albinoni; but instead was a piece that was constructed more that deconstructed.
“The Cellist of Sarajevo is a moving testimony to the essential goodness of individuals, while accepting the undeniable fact of mankind's predilection for evil.”
This quote sums the final verdict of this article. Steven tells a gripping story about how the citizens of Sarajevo were affected the war. Despite this, they will still go out of their way enormously to be kind and giving to others, even though they are putting themselves in great danger while doing so.
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