Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A Memoir

In the early 1990s, Nadija and her family were living an ordinary life in Sarajevo, until the city was besieged by war.

In Ten Thousand Shells and Counting, Nadija recounts her harrowing personal experience of the three-and-a-half-year-long conflict, where death and destruction were everyday occurrences. Nadija lost her home, her family member, and she and her family became refugees. But even amid the horrors of war, life had to go on. Children attended makeshift schools, teenagers partied ...