Zlata's Diary
A Child's Life in Sarajevo
$19.74
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
5 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 day bombardments began. The pathos and power of Zlata’s diary come from watching the destruction of a childhood. Her circle of friends was increasingly replaced by international journalists who came to hear of this little girl’s courage and resilience. But the reality was that, as they flew off with the latest story of Zlata, she remained behind, writing her deepest feelings to ‘Mimmy’, her diary, and her last remaining friend.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140374636 |
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| 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: | 5 January 1995 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 110mm x 180mm |
| Series: | Puffin Non-fiction |
| Audience Age: | 9-13 |
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Critics Review
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”)
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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