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Girl at War
by Sara Novic - £8.99 Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) (2016)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780349140988 | ISBN 10: 0349140987
Perfect for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
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.
(Price & availability last checked: March 2016)
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