To know a city is to become intimately intertwined with its nooks, crevices, secret passageways and dark places where its lifeblood flows and what city has more of those than Venice? This title ventures past the infamous canals and cobblestone streets of the tourist's Venice to find the heart of the historic Italian city.
A collection of letters, written by a most extraordinary, and yet typical representative of east European intelligentsia, posted from Moscow, Mostar, and lately Paris and Rome, where the author has lived since he left war-torn Bosnia.