Zlata Filipovic wrote her diary between September 1991 and October 1993. Following its publication, she was awarded the Special Child of Courage Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. She and her family left Sarajevo in December of 1993, and used the proceeds from the book to launch a charity for child victims of the Bosnian war.
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo?s] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlata's gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo s] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlata s gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevoas] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlataas gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevos] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlatas gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
A graphic firsthand look at the war in Sarajevo by a Croatian girl whose personal world has collapsed, this vivid, sensitive diary sounds an urgent and compelling appeal for peace. Filipovic begins her precocious journal in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old preoccupied with piano and tennis lessons and saturated with American movies, TV shows, books and rock music. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they subsist on UN food packages, without gas, electricity or water, as thousands of Sarajevans die. Filipovic, whose circle of friends included Serbs, Croats and Muslims, blames the former Yugoslavia's politicians for dividing ethnic groups and playing hell with people's lives. She and her parents escaped to Paris, and her diary, originally published in Croat by UNICEF, was reissued in France and has already been much written about in the U.S. Photos not seen by PW. 200,000 first printing; film rights to Universal; first serial to Newsweek; author tour (Mar.)
YA-From September 1991 through October 1993, young Zlata Filipovic kept a diary. When she began it, she was 11 years old, concerned mostly with friends, school, piano lessons, MTV, and Madonna. As the diary ends, she has become used to constant bombing and snipers; severe shortages of food, water, and gas; and the end of a privileged adolescence in her native Sarajevo. Zlata has been described as the new Anne Frank. While the circumstances are somewhat similar, and Zlata is intelligent and observant, this diary lacks the compelling style and mature preceptions that gave Anne Frank's account such universality. The entire situation in the former Yugoslavia, however, is of such currency and concern that any first-person account, especially one such as this that speaks so directly to adolescents, is important and necessary. While not great literature, the narrative provides a vivid description of the ravages of war and its effect upon one young woman, and, as such, is valuable for today's YAs.-Susan H. Woodcock, King's Park Library, Burke, VA
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo?s] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlata's gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo s] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlata s gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevoas] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlataas gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevos] recent history.
("USA Today") Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day
conflict... One of Zlatas gifts lies in throwing a human light on
intolerable events. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
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