Through the Embers of Chaos
Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys is a nonfiction book by Irish author Dervla Murphy, detailing her travels through the Balkans. It was first published by John Murray in 2002.
Human Rights Watch director Steve Crawshaw, writing in The Independent, panned the book, particularly Murphy's repeated "reluctance to address context". The Guardians Matthew Collin noted that Murphy's likability makes it easier for readers to get through the book's "relentless barrage of facts, acronyms and grim vignettes". In a review for the Library Journal, Melinda Stivers Leach praised the book as "both highly educational and deeply inspiring". The Irish Times Owen Dawson also gave the book a positive review, concluding: "This is Murphy at her best entertaining, observant, informed and, above all else, thoroughly human."