Searching for Sofia
A Tale of Obsession, Murder and War
From journalist John Nadler comes a real-life Romeo and Juliet story set in war-torn Kosovo.
Nadler has stumbled upon a bitter epic romance in the ashes of inter-ethnic strife in the former Yugoslavia. The cast: a pair of star-cross’d lovers, a young Kosovar man and a Serb woman; the girl’s father, a local militiaman who is determined to crush the relationship; and a war correspondent in the role of Friar Lawrence, entrusted with the commission of reuniting the lovers.
Gjorg escapes the slaughter of his village by feigning death and fleeing while Serb troops invade his town. His fiancée Sofia disappears -- whisked away to Serbia, Gjorg believes, by her father, who is later implicated in a massacre. Gjorg, languishing in nato-held…
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July 27, 2011
John Nadler is a contributing correspondent to CanWest Newspapers, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, and writes for Variety magazine. His articles have appeared in Time, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Ottawa Citizen, The Gazette (Montreal), National Post, and The Independent (UK). He lives in Hungary.
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