Sarajevo Firewood is a searing narrative by Algerian author Saïd Khatibi about two countries – Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina – both of which experienced traumatic and destructive civil wars in the 1990s. It is told through the voices of Salim, an Algerian journalist, and Ivana, a young Bosnian woman, both of whom have fled the destruction and hatred of their own countries to try to build new lives in Slovenia. As Ivana pursues the goal of writing her 'dream play', and Salim discovers he is not his father's son, Khatibi's novel brings to life in a rich fictional form the memories and experiences of the countless ordinary people who survived the atrocities linking the two countries. Sarajevo Firewood is both a lasting memorial to the thousands of dead and 'disappeared' of these two countries' civil conflicts, whose lives ended like charred firewood, and a powerful and innovative exploration of the experience of exile to which so many have been subjected over the last few decades.