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 t…
The diary of Zlata Filipovic begins with the typical concerns of an eleven-year-old girl: piano lessons and birthday parties, new skis and grades at school. Eight months later, as blasts of gunfire destroy her happy world, Zlata witnesses and records instead the horrors of war: …
This book presents the diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.
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 t…
The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.
Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. She was an ordinary, if unusuallyintelligent and articulate little girl, and her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna fan club, her piano lessons, her fri…
The diary of a Croatian girl whose world collapses, when war breaks out. Filipovic begins her diary in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they su…
"The diary of a Croatian girl whose world collapses, when war breaks out. Filipovic begins her diary in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they s…