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02956aam a2200349Ia 4500 001 5B298192127C11E1BA0909E76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20111119010058 008 110306s2011 enkb 000 0ceng d 020 $a 1408812746 020 $a 9781408812747 035 $a (OCoLC)706031920 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d SILO $d NZWPM $d CDX $d BWK $d DGU $d UKMGB $d NZNSL $d SILO 043 $a e-bn--- 082 04 $a 949.742 $2 22 100 1 $a Reid, Atka, $d 1970- 245 0 $a Goodbye Sarajevo : $b a true story of courage, love and survival / $c Atka Reid & Hana Schofield. 246 30 $a True story of courage, love and survival. 260 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2011. 300 $a 339 p. : $b map ; $c 23 cm. 520 8 $a "May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her twenty-one-year-old sister, Atka, staying behind to look after their five younger siblings, is there to say goodbye. Believing that they will be apart for only a few weeks, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates and months go by without contact, their promise to each other becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, far away from home and family, while Atka battles for survival in a city where snipers, mortar attacks and desperate food shortages are a part of everyday life. Their mother, working for a humanitarian aid organisation, is unable to reach them and their father retreeats inside himself, shocked at what is happening to his city. In Sarajevo, death lurks in every corner and shakes the foundations of their existence. One day their beloved uncle is killed while queuing up for bread in the market square, in a massacre similar to the one three months earlier which prompted a cellist to make a lone musical protest in the deserted streets. But when Atka finds work as a translator in an old smoky radio station, and then with a photojournalist from New Zealand, life takes an unexpected turn, and the remarkable events that follow change her life, and those of her family, forever. Set in the middle of the bloodiest European conflict since the Second World War, 'Goodye Sarajevo' is a moving and compelling true study of courage, hope and extraordinary human kindness"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket. 600 10 $a Reid, Atka, $d 1970- 600 10 $a Schofield, Hana, $d 1979- 650 0 $a Refugees $z Croatia $v Biography. 650 0 $a Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 $x Refugees. 650 0 $a Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 $x Personal narratives, Bosnian. 651 0 $a Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) $x Social life and customs. 651 0 $a Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) $x History $y Siege, 1992-1996. 700 1 $a Schofield, Hana, $d 1979- 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20111119012301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B298192127C11E1BA0909E76AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search