Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition
by Zlata Filipovic

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition
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Author: Zlata Filipovic
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-28
ISBN: 0143036874
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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  • ISBN13: 9780143036876
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition

Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars

Sheesh...this is the product of a child, not the work of a Pulitzer prize winning journalist. It is an excellent diary, an excellent primary source and an excellent text for a better understanding of the Yugoslav wars. Yes...it does only tell one point of view - hers - it is her diary! Some readers are offended because of the comparison to Anne Frank; a comparison that Filipovic and others make in the book. The comparison is totally fair. Both are intelligent children caught up in situations they have no control over during wars of ethnic cleansing and extermination. It is a testament to Zlata that she can make the connection to Anne Frank...obviously the rest of the world couldn't. They (We) abandoned the Jews sixty years ago and abandoned hundreds of thousands of Croats/Bosniaks/Serbs to genocide forty years later. Zlata remembered Anne Frank's words...the world didn't.

Summary of Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition

When Zlata?s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovi´c becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor?s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.

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