For fans of The Kite Runner, Girl at War and The Cellist of Sarajevo, The Longest Winter is Kevin Sullivan's inspiring and authentic debut novel about life in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.
Terry is a British doctor on a mission to rescue a sick child in urgent need of life-saving surgery.
Brad is an American journalist desperately trying to save his reputation following the disasters of his last posting.
Milena is a young woman from Eastern Bosnia who has fled from her home and her husband, seeking refuge from betrayal amid the devastation of besieged Sarajevo.
In the aftermath of the assassination of a government minister, three life stories are intertwined in a dramatic quest for redemption. Kevin Sullivan covered the siege of Dubrovnik in 1991 and the war in Bosnia in 1992/93. He was seriously wounded in a land-mine explosion in early 1993. While recovering, he wrote an early draft of The Longest Winter. He now lives in Sarajevo with his wife and daughter. What do you do when war tears your world apart? A tense and exciting debut novel about life in the midst of war, for fans of The Kite Runner Based on a true story of the assassination of a government minister in Sarajevo in the winter of 1992/93 Kevin Sullivan was a journalist, and then a speechwriter at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo Kevin splits his time between Sarajevo and Spain
