The city of Calgary is doing a neat community initiative. They are trying to get everyone in the city to read one book. This way if you see somebody else reading it on the bus or in a coffee shop, you can approach that person and start a discussion. Community building with books at the heart -what a dream!
Below is a summary of the book taken from Calgary's website about it. Check out Calgary’s Website about ONE BOOK ONE CALGARY http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/one-book-one-calgary
About the Book:
The Cellist of Sarajevo is a haunting novel with universal resonance. It tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.
One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills 22 people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the 22 victims.
The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope.
