Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo: Revised Edition
Zlata Filipovic
Feb 2006 · Sold by Penguin
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The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the world
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-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic 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.
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-to-day record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic 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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Corvus Genco
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September 20, 2023
I read this book during the time this conflict was on going. I was about the same age Zlata was at the time. I am now 41 years old & still carry the impact Zlata's experiences had on me as a pre-teen. -- I am the great-grandchild of immigrants from Sicily searching for a better life away from the civil & European strife of WW1 & between WW2. My great-grandparents were still alive when I was born. -- It speaks to anyone's heart how such conflicts progress; the impact they have on people's lives who are just like you. It starts out regularly w/ everyday life stuff a teen would go through in their daily lives. As it progresses you see how the conflict in Bosnia progresses through Zlata's eyes, mind, & heart. The way a young teen tries to make sense of such violence, deaths of people she knew, destruction of places she loved, the obliteration of the life she knew. You see her grieving process on her way to safety where she and her family could start healing emotionally/psychologicaly.
Robert Green
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December 3, 2019
She showed us a stupid war through a young girl's eyes.
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Ernestina Davis
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June 23, 2016
I read this book as a young teen and 20 yrs later I still remember it. A really great book.
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About the author
Zlata Filipovic wrote her diary between September 1991 and October 1993. Following its publication, she was awarded the Special Child of Courage Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. She and her family left Sarajevo in December of 1993, and used the proceeds from the book to launch a charity for child victims of the Bosnian war.
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