Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map of the Balkans; Prologue: Saints, Terrorists, Blood, and Holy Water; YUGOSLAVIA: HISTORICAL OVERTURES: Croatia: Just So They Could Go to Heaven; Old Serbia and Albania: Balkan West Bank; Macedonia: A Hand Thirsting Towards the Realm of the Stars; The White City and Its Prophet; ROMANIA: LATIN PASSION PLAY: Athenee Palace, Bucharest; The Danube's Bitter End; Moldavia: Conditioned to Hate; The Land Beyond Dracula's Castle: The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina; Transylvanian Voices; Transylvanian Tale: The Pied Piper's Children Go Back to Hamelin; Last Glimpses: Timisoara and Bucharest; BULGARIA: TALES FROM COMMUNIST BYZANTIUM: The Warmth of Each Other's Bodies; The Price of Friendship; The Bad and the Good; GREECE: WESTERN MISTRESS, EASTERN BRIDE: Farewell to Salonika; Teach Me, Zorba. Teach Me to Dance!; The Secret History; Epilogue: The Road to Adrianople; Selected Bibliography; Index.