Girl at War

Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Zusatztext Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth. It is a brutal novel! but a beautiful one Informationen zum Autor Sara Novic was born in 1987 and has lived in the United States and Croatia. She recently graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and translation. She is the fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine , and teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She lives in Queens, New York. Klappentext Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, ten-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy: she runs the streets with her best friend, helps take care of her baby sister, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. Ana is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers in the brutality of the Bosnian Croat conflict. A daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country, forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place that was once her home. Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Zusammenfassung Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Vorwort
Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Autorentext

Sara Novic was born in 1987 and has lived in the United States and Croatia. She recently graduated from the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and translation. She is the fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine, and teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She lives in Queens, New York.

Klappentext

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, ten-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy: she runs the streets with her best friend, helps take care of her baby sister, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills.

Ana is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers in the brutality of the Bosnian Croat conflict. A daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country, forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place that was once her home.

Zusammenfassung
Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie