Girl at War
Autor Sara Novicen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2016
În vara anului 1991, la Zagreb, jocurile de fotbal și lecțiile școlare sunt înlocuite brusc de sunetul sirenelor și de tirurile lunetiștilor. Apreciem modul în care Girl at War surprinde acest moment de fractură prin ochii Anei Jurić, o fetiță de zece ani a cărei siguranță se destramă odată cu prăbușirea Iugoslaviei. Romanul nu este doar o cronică a conflictului, ci o explorare contemplativă a modului în care istoria se grefează pe identitatea individuală, forțând maturizarea prematură într-un peisaj marcat de suspiciune între vecini. Imaginați-vă tensiunea și dezrădăcinarea din The Hotel Tito de Ivana Bodrozic, mutată într-un decor unde trauma este purtată tăcut prin zgârie-norii din Manhattan, zece ani mai târziu. Merită menționat că Sara Novic folosește o structură duală, alternând între vulnerabilitatea copilăriei asediate și încercarea adultă de a face pace cu trecutul în New York-ul post-2001. Reținem finețea cu care autoarea descrie „banalitatea” ororii — momentele în care rațiile de mâncare devin noua normalitate — păstrând totodată un ton liric, aproape de un bocet popular, dar tăios ca un fir de sârmă ghimpată. Față de lucrarea sa ulterioară, True Biz, care se concentrează pe cultura comunității surde, acest debut rămâne ancorat în realitatea sângeroasă a Balcanilor, explorând supraviețuirea nu doar ca act fizic, ci ca proces psihologic continuu. Este o lectură despre reziliență care, asemenea scrierilor lui Aleksandar Hemon din The Book of My Lives, refuză să simplifice complexitatea apartenenței și a pierderii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349140987
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută o perspectivă intimă asupra conflictului iugoslav, dincolo de cifrele din manualele de istorie. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care trauma războiului modelează adultul de mai târziu. Este o carte esențială pentru cei care au apreciat „Suflete de sticlă” sau lucrările lui Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, oferind o poveste despre memorie, secrete și curajul de a te întoarce acasă pentru a înfrunta fantomele trecutului.
Despre autor
Sara Novic, născută în 1987, este o scriitoare americană de origine croată, a cărei experiență personală între cele două culturi infuzează proza sa cu o autenticitate rară. Absolventă a programului MFA de la Universitatea Columbia, unde a studiat ficțiunea și traducerea, Novic s-a remarcat rapid în peisajul literar contemporan. Debutul său, Girl at War, a fost finalist pentru Los Angeles Times Book Prize și a fost inclus pe listele celor mai bune cărți ale anului de către Booklist și Electric Literature. Pe lângă activitatea de romancieră, este editor de ficțiune și profesoară de scriere creativă, fiind o voce importantă în reprezentarea culturii și identității est-europene în literatura de limbă engleză.
Descriere
Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills.
The brutal ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosnians tragically changes Ana's life, and she is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country, forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place that was once her home.
Recenzii
Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian Croat war, this vivid debut recalls Half of a Yellow Sun. Main character Ana's journey from a ten-year-old tomboy to young woman will leave you reeling
I read it in one night...devastating...Novic excels at distilling visual poetry from action scenes . . . [she] has breathed fire and ice into these pages. Immersing herself in the darkest materials, she has given us the real stuff dystopian fantasies are made of
An outstanding first novel . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth
Astonishing . . . Girl at War is an extraordinarily poised and potent debut novel, a story about grief and exile, memory and identity, and the redemptive power of love
A shattering debut . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literature's more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence
Novic's debut novel draws on her personal experiences of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia to craft a fiction that is heartfelt, in places harrowing, but ultimately redemptive
From its first sentence, Sara Novic's debut novel unfolds on both intimate and immense scales . . . The first section ends with a brilliantly abrupt, devastating event that essentially ends Ana's childhood. It's a scene that haunts the rest of the book . . . [Novic is]a writer whose own gravity and talent anchor this novel
The first third of this gripping debut novel depicts the start of the Yugoslavian civil war through the eyes of Ana Juric, a ten-year-old girl residing with her family in Croatia's capital . . . Through Ana's journey, Novic, in tender and eloquent prose, explores the challenge of how to live even after one has survived
If we looked for and celebrated a "book of the summer" as we do that one song every year (what will it be this year?!), this novel would surely be this summer's star. This debut work from a rising author examines in painful, tender detail the cost of war on a young woman, many years after her simple life with her family in Croatia was interrupted by war. Ana, the main character, is haunted by the memories of what she thought her country once was, and how to deal with the secrets of what really happened to her and her family.
Powerful and vividly wrought . . . Novic writes about horrors with an elegant understatement. In cool, accomplished sentences, we are met with the gravity, brutality and even the mundaneness of war and loss as well as the enduring capacity to live
A powerful and unforgettable novel that made me see Croatia in a whole new light
Sara Novic's powerful debut novel, Girl at War, is a superb exploration of conflict and its aftermath, and a stark reminder that while ceasefires and peace treaties may end the fighting, they don't always end the suffering
There is something about a child's loss...that, done the right way, positively sears...Sara Novic rises to the challenge beautifully...Note perfect and ambitious in scope...make no mistake, at once visceral, tender and affecting, Novic and her debut are sitting pretty in a league of their own
Novic's narrative is matter of fact, a chillingly effective way of describing the damage done by the war and its emotional impact on Ana
Remarkable
A searing debut novel, one whose content lingers with you long after you have closed the pages
I think that if you are going to read only one book this year, you should make it Girl at War. Highly recommended!
If there's one good thing about the Booker Prize opening to American novels, it's that Girl at War can go up for it
Novic's debut novel is a stunning account of how the horrors and atrocities of war creep into everyday life and slowly tear apart the world of a young girl
A truly powerful, haunting debut . . . that has made an unforgettable impression upon me
It always feel weird to call a book with such tragic subject matter a favourite, but I don't know a better way to explain just how highly I think of this book and how much it got under my skin. It is now, without doubt, one of my all-time favourite books. I stayed up all night just to read it and it was so beautiful and sad and heartbreakingly honest. I'd rate the book 5 stars out of 5 and I can't wait until I can buy a physical copy so it can take its well-earned place on my favourite's shelf
Girl at War depicts the still-fresh nightmare of the Yugoslavian civil war, survived by a girl much too young to know all she knows. Sara Novic writes with ruthless understatement not only about a modern city subjected to primitive horrors, but about young Ana's subsequent war against the American urge to forget. Sentence after perfectly weighted sentence lands with the sound of a gavel. The first fifty pages might be the best fifty pages you read this year
Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth. It is a brutal novel, but a beautiful one
Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, ten-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy: she runs the streets with her best friend, helps take care of her baby sister, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills.
Ana is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers in the brutality of the Bosnian Croat conflict. A daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival. Ten years later she returns to Croatia, a young woman struggling to belong to either country, forced to confront the trauma of her past and rediscover the place that was once her home.