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Girl at War A Novel Sara Novic Books

Absolutely one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I shed tears through most of it. What makes this remarkable work even more impressive is that this is a debut novel by a young writer and her first language was not English.

The beauty of the writing makes the trauma experienced by a child growing up in a war zone even more horrifying than other works on similar topics. It should be a "must read" for all those considering American foreign policy on how war effects the lives of children and how lasting those effects can remain.

I cannot express how powerful this book is and how the history it recounts will remain important and relevant not only for today, but for generations to come.


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Girl at War A Novel Sara Novic Books Reviews

I began this book at about 10pm last night, and just finished it a moment ago (330pm next day). I only put it down to sleep and once to answer some phone calls. During the phone calls, I was impatient to return to the book.

It made me weep twice.
The author has a strong clear voice. Her story is urgent and vivid. Well told. A page turner.

At many points what i was reading made me feel how much I love my own family, not think of them or know that I love them, or miss them, but really feel my love for them, as I did when I was a child. No Book has ever had this effect on me before. So I thank the author.

The book also makes it brutally clear that peace is better than war. But not like John Lennon tried to do. This book makes the argument for real. As an American man, raised on TomCruise and Stallone movies, I knew intellectually that peace was desirable, but I never felt in bones how desirable it really was. The book put the feeling for peace into me deeply. Reading it was good for my soul.

If you are considering, buy it, and read it!
Based on the Yugoslavian war during the 1990’s, the story, captivating from the first page, is divided into four parts and moves back and forth through time.
1991 Ana leads the life normal life of a school aged girl until division comes and neighbors base friendliness on accents and ethnicity. Bombings and airstrikes change the pattern of their daily lives. Food shortages, black outs, gunfire and death become the norm. On the particular day Ana’s parents seek help to save their baby daughter, Ana’s sickly sister, tragedy strikes and Ana’s life changes forever. To survive and stay alive, Ana joins bands of warrior children.
2001 Ana lives a normal life in New Jersey with her family, has a boyfriend, and is a student of English Literature in Manhattan. Ana has everything that she wants except peace in that she cannot put the war and the atrocities behind her. Ana decides to return to Croatia and confront the ghosts of the past.
The novel, descriptive and succinctly written, offers the Croatian view of the war and is the author’s first novel. The author has lived in both Croatia and the U.S. and currently resides in Queens, NY.
This is a promising subject, the wars in the Balkans when Yugoslavia broke into its constituent pieces. Sara Novic's approach, the experiences of a young girl during the bombing of Zagreb, starts the novel off and works. We must disregard the fact that Zagreb got off relatively lightly; it was Sarajevo where the bombs fell relentlessly. Alas, it's somewhat downhill from there, especially the parts set in the United States, where most characters are wooden and lack depth. And I do so wish that we had learned more of our hero's time as a child soldier. Now that would have been illuminating. But this part of her life is skated over and lacks flesh. What a pity. It's a brave decision to use details of you life and the lives of your family and friends as the basis of a story but it must feel more real than I found Girl at War. Alas this first novel failed to captivate me.
Unbelievable read - picked it up on whim, because I am interested in that part of the world (since I lived in Sarajevo for 2 years) and the wars that broke up Yugoslavia and this book hit all the right notes. It follows the story of Ana, a 9 year old when the Croatian War of Independence breaks out. Ana's baby sister, Rahela is sick and has to be medivac'ed out of Croatia to America for kidney surgery. Its at this point the story twists and really takes off. You are flashed forward to Ana living in America at the age of 20 or 21, at college in New York City.
Despite the author having only lived in Croatia for a small period of time, she captures the feel of life there both before and after the war. It is the after the war that I'm more familiar with (having lived there in 2013 and 2014) and I was very impressed by how accurately the author gets the feel and mood of the psyche of the people who live there now, having survived a war and accompanying terrible atrocities. The way everyone seems to suffer from some form of PTSD but nothing is talked about, how the countryside continues to bear the marks of battle, how the war continues to color life.
I also liked the pace of this book, she kept it moving but still you were able to experience the tragic events as they unfolded. Novic didn't linger on unnecessary details but gave you just enough to fill in the picture.
I wish more people knew about this book, it should be on best seller lists, despite it being a work of fiction, Novic is one of the few I've read who gets the feel and mood of that part of the region just right (from my experience).
Highly recommend for all, great for book clubs!
Absolutely one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I shed tears through most of it. What makes this remarkable work even more impressive is that this is a debut novel by a young writer and her first language was not English.

The beauty of the writing makes the trauma experienced by a child growing up in a war zone even more horrifying than other works on similar topics. It should be a "must read" for all those considering American foreign policy on how war effects the lives of children and how lasting those effects can remain.

I cannot express how powerful this book is and how the history it recounts will remain important and relevant not only for today, but for generations to come.