Hotel Sarajevo / Jack Kersh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kersh, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Children and war--Fiction.

Children and war.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Turtle Point Press, [1997]

Summary:

This is the story of Alma, a 14-year old girl coming of age in a city ravaged by war and anarchy. Alma is a plain but precocious adolescent, a daydreamer who has taken up residence with a group of teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo. They live as a family for more than a year scavenging for their daily needs. Hotel Sarajevo is a powerfully evocative novel of exquisitely worked moods and images and Alma, the narrator, is a complex fictional character. She is at once a child playing with her rag doll, a sexually aware teenager, and a young woman with highly developed self-analytical and survival skills.

ISBN:

1885983212

OCLC:

37522639