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The non-fiction book You Ate Like a Stone is about the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wojciech Tochman tells the story of the post-war period, when a group of scientists led by Dr Eva searches for mass graves of Muslims killed during the "ethnic cleansing". The relatives of the victims follow the expedition, hoping to find the remains of their son, husband, brother, father... in one of the many gravesites... and they recall and retell the stories as if they were reliving their tragedies every day.

Reporting as a genre does not involve metaphorical writing and big words, it only recognises facts. That's why Tochman uses only eyewitnesses' voices. It is frightening and eerie to move from chapter to chapter, each next line contains a fierce premonition of horror, the fear of stepping on a mined field, of tripping over a body or bones that Dr Ewa has not yet recognised.

Wojciech Tochman is a Polish journalist and reporter. From 1990 to 2004, he worked as a reporter for Gazeta Wyborcza. In 1999, he founded the ITAKA Foundation, which searches for the victims and helps their families.