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

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

by Zlata Filipovic

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143036876
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/28/2006
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 389,713
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.06(h) x 0.51(d)
Lexile: 640L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

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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