It is a twenty-minute walk from the Latin Bridge, where the assassination of the Habsburg heir couple marked the beginning of the "short 20th century," to the Vrbanja Bridge, where it ended in 1992 with the murder of two students. Dzevad Karahasan soberly and speculatively illuminates the darkness that hangs over this path and the people who have walked it. Karahasan traces the marks left by the 20th century in his hometown of Sarajevo and in Bosnia. Anatomy of Sadness tells the story of the son of an Italian partisan and a Yugoslav communist who reflects on his life in exile. In Principle Gabriel, research leads the narrator to Terezin. He discovers that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Sarajevo, was also imprisoned there. The letters from 1993 recount the experiences of a student who corresponds with his professor through letters.