Sara Novic

Girl At War

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "BOOKPAGE, ""BOOKLIST, "AND" ELECTRIC LITERATURE" ALEX AWARD WINNER "LOS ANGELES TIMES "BOOK PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION For readers of "The Tiger s Wife "and "All the Light We Cannot See" comes a powerful debut novel about a girl s coming of age and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she s tried to move on from her past, she can t escape her memories of war secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, "Girl at War "is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and its legacy on all of us. It s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "BOOKPAGE, ""BOOKLIST, "AND" ELECTRIC LITERATURE" ALEX AWARD WINNER "LOS ANGELES TIMES "BOOK PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION For readers of "The Tiger s Wife "and "All the Light We Cannot See" comes a powerful debut novel about a girl s coming of age and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she s tried to move on from her past, she can t escape her memories of war secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, "Girl at War "is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and its legacy on all of us. It s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today.

Nyelv angol
Kiadó Random House Books
Oldalak száma 368
Kötés típusa mäkká
Méretek (Sz-M-H) 13.2 x 20.3 cm
EAN 9780812986396
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