Beautifully written memoir from a Serbian poet. Although the author writes of her struggle with cancer, her coverage of the war in the former Yugoslavia, and her emigration to England, the bulk of this book concerns the lives of her family members - and her own life as an adolescent and young adult. Aside from the language, I particularly enjoyed the non-linear narrative. It's personal preference, of course, but I tend to find that structuring a story on emotion - and stitching up time and space and subject matter according to that emotion, not a strict temporal reading of events - very appealing.