Written in the first and third person, it tells the story of Zora Kočović, a woman in her 50's who was a professor of art, until the Bosnian war and the division of Sarajevo. She tries to make the best of the ever worsening situation, where over time the beseiged population, see food run out, electricity get turned off, and the water turned off.

It takes place over the first year of the war, and you get to watch as there are small moments of joy, with the people managing to survive, and come togther as things start to get worse. This is fiction that is based on the lived experiences of those who lived through the war, and this comes through in the writing.

I enjoyed that conversations are in the first person, but then switch to the third when describing the scene, like someone is there documentary style.