Full name: Girl at War: A Novel

Author: Sara Novic Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Historical fiction, Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812986396

Zagreb, summer of 1991. Ten-year-old Ana Jurić is a carefree tomboy who runs the streets of Croatia's capital with her best friend, Luka, takes care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But as civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Ana is lost to a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later Ana is a college student in New York. She's been hiding her past from her boyfriend, her friends, and most especially herself. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, she returns alone to Croatia, where she must rediscover the place that was once her home and search for the ghosts of those she's lost. Similar books: The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie Days Without End by Sebastian Barry The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally The Black Flower by Howard Bahr Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian Poison by Kathryn Harrison Foxfire by Anya Seton Extravagance by Gary Krist The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger The Earthly Paradise by C. S. Forester The Coin of Carthage by Bryher