Black Lamb and Grey Falcon A Journey Through Yugoslavia

"'Black Lamb & Grey Falcon' is only nominally a travel guide: It is filled with characters observed with great sympathy at the highest possible pitch. It is also an erudite history of the Balkans, and an attempt to express West's own sensibililty as a writer, a woman, a socialist, and, above all, as a citizen of Europe on the eve of the Second World War. The strength of West's writing lies in the keenness of her eye and her fanatical insistence on her own perceptions. She glides effortlessly between literary forms--the travel book, the Bloomsbury novel, the memoir, history, political journalism--while using each to embody some particular aspect of her own consciousness.West, Rebecca is the author of 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon A Journey Through Yugoslavia' with ISBN 9780140188479 and ISBN 0140188479.