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She holds an mfa from columbia university, where she studied fiction and literary translation. It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful books i have ever read aminatta forna. Sara has lived in the states and croatia, and her novel bears witness to the haunting stories of her family and friends who lived through the height of the conflict, and reflects her own attempts to come to terms with. She is a graduate of the mfa program at columbia university, where she studied fiction and translation. This acclaimed book by sara novic is available at in several formats for your ereader. Its a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today. Women in war by celia lee overdrive rakuten overdrive. Red sonja girl at war sara novic characters throughout the chapters, ana travels to various places and shifts to the past. Sara novic fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl and its legacy on all of us.
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Author interview sara novic, author of girl at war bookpage. She holds an mfa from columbia university, where she studied fiction and literary tra. Girls at war, the title story, is about the tragic effects of war on the. Here, the readers encounter people from different time periods with different nationalities and backgrounds. Sara novic s debut novel, girl at war, zeroes in on the croatian war of independence, which lasted from 1991 to 1995. For readers of the tigers wife and all the light we cannot see comes a powerful debut novel about a girls coming of ageand how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Girl at war is an extraordinarily poised and potent debut novel, a story about grief and exile, memory and identity, and the redemptive power of love financial times a shattering debut. Which might explain the remarkable impact of sara novic s debut novel.
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But its also a tender, realistic comingofage tale which perfectly captures a myriad of emotions, without ever being overly emotional. Its a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history. Novics debut novel centers on the civil war in croatia between croats and serbs in the 1990s. Girl at war tells the story of ana juric, a girl who is just ten when the civil war breaks out in croatia.
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