Zlata's Diary
A Child's Life in Sarajevo
$26.77
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 January 1995
Summary
Zlata Filipović was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. She was an ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl, and her preoccupations included whether or not to join the Madonna fan club, her piano lessons, her friends, and her new skis. But the distant murmur of war drew closer to her Sarajevo home. Her father started to wear military uniform, and her friends began to leave the city. One day, school was closed, and the next d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140374636 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140374639 |
| Author: | Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 4 January 1995 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Puffin Non-fiction |
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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”)
About The Author
Zlata Filipovic
Zlata Filipovic was born in 1980. From 1991 to 1993 she wrote in her diary of her experiences living during the war in Sarajevo. Zlata escaped in 1993 and went to St Andrews College in Dublin, and then to Oxford University where she graduated in 2001 with a degree in Human Sciences.
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