Girl at War

Author(s): Sara Novic

Fiction

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. The brutal ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosnians tragically changes Ana's life, and she is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers; 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. Girl At War is a haunting, compelling debut from a brilliant young writer, rooted in historical fact and personal experience. Sara has lived in the States and Croatia, and her novel bears witness to the haunting stories of her family and friends who lived through the height of the conflict, and reflects her own attempts to come to terms with her relationship to Croatia and its history. It is an extraordinary achievement for a novelist of any age, let alone age 26.

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Baileys Longlist 2016

This vivid debut recalls Half of a Yellow Sun ... will leave you reeling Stylist

Sara Novic was born in 1987, and now lives in New York City. She studied fiction and literary translation in the MFA program at Columbia University, where she is currently a teaching fellow. Sara is also the fiction editor of Blunderbuss Magazine, and the founding editor of the Deaf rights and education blog Redeafined.

General Fields

  • : 9781408706558
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
  • : Little, Brown
  • : 0.44
  • : December 2014
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sara Novic
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
  • : 615
  • : 615
  • : 336
  • : 336