S.

S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . The writing is taut precise and masterful. —The Philadelphia EnquirerSet in 1992 during the height of the Bosnian war S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child—one without a country a name a father or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in the women''s room of a prison camp. Through a series of flashbacks S. relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured and in telling her story—timely strangely compelling and ultimately about survival—depicts the darkest side of human nature during wartime.