Date 07 January 2026
Pages 207
Format cm 12 x 22
Price € 22.00
EAN 9782330215088
Publisher Website www.actes-sud.fr

Mostar

This Is Not a City
Author Aline Cateux
Publisher Actes Sud
COLLECTION Les routes de l'après
GENRE Essay
Aline Cateux reveals the beauty and tenacity of the people of Mostar, the city most devastated by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Since discovering Mostar in 1999 on a trip with an NGO, Aline Cateux has continuously returned, lived, and worked there. Her long walks through the city take her from neighborhoods still in ruins to the Old Bridge, a symbol of unfinished reconstruction, and to a factory that was once a source of Yugoslav pride and has become a symbol of local political corruption. Thirty years after the end of the fighting, what exactly is this urban space where the people of Mostar continue to survive? How have they come to say that the city they loved has disappeared?