The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
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Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. He is to help capture an aging Nazi collaborator who has become a war profiteer. But nothing is simple in the Balkans: Petric is also being used as bait to lure his quarry into the open, and when the operation goes sour he is drawn across Europe into a dangerous labyrinth of secret identities, stolen gold, and horrifying discoveries about his own family’s past. Intelligent and suspenseful, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a masterful, electrifying thriller.The New York TimesFesperman evokes the feel of Vlado's beloved Sarajevo -- ravaged but functioning and maybe even a little bored with this unfamiliar state known as peacetime -- magnificently … Fesperman's biggest contribution to his genre may be his discovery of the narrative potential of the Balkans. Cold war Europe, with its shadowy deceptions and murky defections, has a worthy successor in this land of divided loyalties and uncomfortably overlapping layers of violent history. — Jonathan Mahler
