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Forced out of their homes, fired from their jobs as university professors, tormented and. Its married protagonists, jovan and suzana brakocevic, are academics from the former yugoslavia. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Patric was born in zemun, serbia and migrated to australia with his family when he was still a child. Black rock white city is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. In this case those migrants are yugoslavian refugees who fled the bosnian war in the mid1990s.
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