Acclaim for Robert D. Kaplan’s Balkan Ghosts

“Important … Kaplan is a striking and evocative writer.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“Mr. Kaplan spares no individual and no nation … as he demonstrates his literary powers at their fullest.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Kaplan is a striking and evocative writer, and the Balkans offer him all the richness of a García Márquez world, where the fantastic is everyday life.”

—San Francisco Examiner

“With remarkable clarity, [Kaplan] explains problems that all sides have lived with throughout the long history of the Balkan peninsula.… Mr. Kaplan succeeds in presenting the everyday experience of different Balkan communities in a vivid and significant way. Balkan Ghosts offers the complexity, brutality, and beauty in traveling in both the past and the present.”

—Seattle Times

“A timely field guide to the ethnic and religious passions of ‘Europe’s forgotten rear door.’ Few writers surpass Kaplan in the ability to pack useful information into a small space.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“An often rewarding odyssey filled with vivid writing.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Historical perspective makes Kaplan a superb observer.… He artfully blends his reporter’s notes with rich historical reflection.”

—Business Week

“A well-documented account of the Balkans’ past and present … Kaplan … forcefully illustrates that the irreconcilable differences among Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnians are only one part of the seething ethnic, religious, and cultural tensions tearing at a much larger region.”

—Pittsburgh Post Gazette