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Title: The Balkans will always be a mess.
Review: This book is located in an unidentified eastern european state but the implications point to the Balkans and Bosnia/Serbia. The novel is an overy romantic tale of instilling race-hatred and drafting children into warfare. I love F.H.B.'s well known novels but this one frightened me. Today's newpaper front page is full of orphaned child soldiers from eastern europe,Rwanda and Sudan that are not really very different from the main characters of this book. Do not put this book into the hands of young children, it needs to be read in historical context.
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