It was fragile, and in need of conservation, but it was tougher than it looked – the book had been buried in the 1990s to save it from the destruction and depredation that was gutting libraries and archives during the Siege of Sarajevo, and had only recently been exhumed from the earth.
– Shubigi Rao ‘Raising the Dead’, from Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book, Volume II of V, Rock Paper Fire: Singapore, 2018
