Items related to Lovers and Madmen: A True Story of Passion, Politics...
Lovers and Madmen is dominated by two central themes: politics and love. Julienne Busic’s memoirs take the reader through the events which shaped her life with Croatian dissident husband, Zvonko—assassination attempts, threats from the Yugoslav secret police, flights from country to country, enforced poverty and deprivation—and characterize the love which led to the greatest sacrifice of all: a sentence of life in prison for the political hijacking of a TWA jet.
Less than twenty years after that desperate act, Yugoslavia broke apart in a spasm of war and Croatia is now an independent state. The message contained in the leaflets thrown during the hijacking served as a prophesy of this disintegration and the vicious Serbian aggression, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and most recently in Albanian populated Kosovo. Julienne Busic served thirteen years in prison and was released on parole in 1989. Zvonko Busic is still incarcerated, almost 25 years later, in a maximum–security federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Zvonko Busic is still incarcerated, almost thirty years later, in a maximum-security federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Review:
"This is a travelogue of the revolutionary life, an enduring love story, and an exploration, both unsettling and liberating, of international politics played out on the most personal level." --Claire Ortalda, writer, editor, and founding member of PEN Center, Oakland, California
"Busic s book movingly illustrates how easy it is to be drawn emotionally by a burning sense of injustice into actions which ultimately have tragic and far-reaching repercussions. The 30-year detention of Zvonko Busic also shows how little value is placed on redemption and forgiveness by those who preach it, and especially how the system is unable to distinguish between one kind of terrorism and another." --John C. Griffiths, former President of British Liberal Party, and author
"Busic s book movingly illustrates how easy it is to be drawn emotionally by a burning sense of injustice into actions which ultimately have tragic and far-reaching repercussions. The 30-year detention of Zvonko Busic also shows how little value is placed on redemption and forgiveness by those who preach it, and especially how the system is unable to distinguish between one kind of terrorism and another." --John C. Griffiths, former President of British Liberal Party, and author
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherWriters Club Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0595007589
- ISBN 13 9780595007585
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
- Rating
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantIf you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!
Create a Want