Memoir books set in Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
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Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war
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Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memori... continue
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Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In a voice both innocent and wise, touchingly reminiscent of Anne Frank's, Zlata Filipovic's diary has awoken the conscience of the world. Now thirteen years old, Zlata began her diary just before her eleventh birthday, when there was peace in Sarajevo and her life was that of a bright, intelligent, carefree young girl. Her early entries describe her friends, her new skis, her family, her grades at school, her interest in joining the Madonna Fan Club. And then, on television, she sees the bombs falling on Dubrovnik. Though repelled by the sight, Zlata cannot conceive of the same thing happenin... continue
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The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace --
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De tolk van Srebrenica by Hasan Nuhanovic NL
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Voor een getuigenis als deze schiet het predicaat ‘episch’ tekort. Hasan Nuhanović, destijds student in Sarajevo, vertelt hoe zijn ouders, zijn broer en hijzelf door het uitbreken van de oorlog in Bosnië van hun anker worden geslagen. Wat volgt is een relaas van mensen op drift. Ze moeten zien te over¬leven in de bossen langs de Drina, waar ze de zomer van 1992 doorkomen op de laatste oogst van het seizoen. Dan slaat de Bosnische winter toe en neemt Nuhanović’ verslag een ijzing¬wekkende wending. Onder mortiervuur van de Bosnische Ser¬viërs van generaal Ratko Mladić worden de Bosnische moslims... continue