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4 unusual facts about The Scent of Rain in the Balkans


The Scent of Rain in the Balkans

Marko Korać, a Mostar–born Blanki's childhood crush and eventually her husband

In 1992, ballet by Croatian composer Igor Kuljerić The Scent of Rain in the Balkans – a Ballet for Riki premiered in Sarajevo, and then a week after in Belgrade.

The novel describes the historic period in the Balkans from the beginning of World War I in 1914, to the end of World War II in 1945 through the lives and destinies of the Saloms, a Sephardic Jewish family from Sarajevo.

The novel is also a document of a world that no longer exists – the world of the Sephardic Jews of Sarajevo.



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