The Blacksmith of Gornji Vakuf

In 1997, two years after the Bosnian War ended, a blacksmith named Zajko Hadzimuratovic returned to his shop in Gornji Vakuf, a town split between Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks who had spent years killing each other. Shrapnel scars pocked every building. Trust was nonexistent. But Zajko needed metal, and the only affordable supply was spent shell casings and mortar fragments littering the hillsides.…