The Old Bridge

Quotes:

Merrill relates the stories of those fleeing the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and discusses the tragedy of that nation as a harbinger of the coming “age of the refugee.” —Deborah Amos, Crosslines

“Succinct and important.... Merrill offers us a concise education and eloquent proof of the baleful repercussions of a weak-willed international community.” —The Bloomsbury Review

“Beautiful, dramatic and very insightful. He really feels and understands this Balkan drama for which we are all somehow responsible, and which will influence —as it is already affecting —our fate.” —Ryszard Kapuscinki

“Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis has done a favor for anyone trying to make sense of the humanitarian disaster in the Balkans with the reissue of a 1995 book by Chris Merrill that seems as prophetic as it was insightful.”