Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia

Like Eating Stone is more than a chronicle of the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia; it is testimony to a pain that does not fade with time.
Wojciech Tochman invites readers into a postwar reality where a team of scientists led by Dr. Ewa methodically uncovers mass graves of victims of "ethnic cleansing." Alongside them stand relatives whose lives have stopped, waiting for news of even the smallest fragment of a son's or father's remains. This is reportage stripped of metaphor and unnecessary embellishment: here, only facts and the voices of eyewitnesses speak. Reading this book is like walking through a minefield: each chapter brings a new premonition of horror.
This edition is expanded with chapters written in 2025 — thirty years after the tragedy of Srebrenica. They record the most crucial truth: the war in Bosnia has not become history; it continues. Every new grave uncovered today is a reminder that the wounds of the living remain open still. This is a chronicle of pain spanning three decades.