A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia (German: Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina, oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien) is a 1996 book by the Austrian writer Peter Handke.
A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia collects Peter Handke's travel writings originally published as a series of articles in the Sunday edition of Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Florian Grosser says Journey to the Rivers avoids "the violent ethnic conflicts on the Balkan peninsula to the point of distorting historical facts", citing the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as the most flagrant example of this.
He says the book portrays Serbia as Handke's "Phantasieheimat, a last bastion that defends a 'buoyant' (heiter), 'original' (ursprünglich) and 'traditional' (volkstümlich) way of life against the hegemonial reach of a disenchanted West".
[1] Publishers Weekly wrote that the book's self-conscious style and "hairsplitting analysis of European journalism, films and TV news coverage" made it less likely to cause the same uproar in the United States as it had in Europe.