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Girl at war : a novel / Sara Nović.
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- Baker & Taylor
When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, 10-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. A first novel. - Baker & Taylor
When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. - Random House, Inc.
For readers of The Tigerâs Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girlâs coming of ageâand how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.
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Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juric is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatiaâs capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Anaâs 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 Anaâs sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world.
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New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though sheâs tried to move on from her past, she canât escape her memories of warâsecrets 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 countryâs difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before.
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Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novic fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girlâand its legacy on all of us. Itâs a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today.
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Praise for Girl at War
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âOutstanding . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth.ââThe New York Times Book Review(Editorâs Choice)
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âIf we looked for and celebrated a âbook of the summerâ as we do that one song every year (what will it be this year?!), this novel would surely be this summerâs star.ââVanity Fair
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âA shattering debut . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literatureâs more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence.ââUSA Today
âIntimate and immense . . . [Novic is] a writer whose own gravity and talent anchor this novel.ââThe New York Times
â[A]Â gripping debut novel . . . Novic, in tender and eloquent prose, explores the challenge of how to live even after one has survived.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
âPowerful and vividly wrought . . . Novic writes about horrors with an elegant understatement. In cool, accomplished sentences, we are met with the gravity, brutality and even the mundaneness of war and loss as well as the enduring capacity to live.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
âOne of this yearâs most discussed debuts . . . What makes [Girl at War] unique is that itâs not concerned with unmasking the horrors of war, as many have repeatedly done. Instead, this book is an exploration of how humans grow, prosper and move on from unthinkable times.ââPaste
âAn unforgettable portrait of how war forever changes the life of the individual . . . a remarkable debut by a writer working with deep reserves of talent, heart, and mind.ââGary Shteyngart, author ofSuper Sad True Love Story
