Atka Reid
Autor(a) de Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
Obras por Atka Reid
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Kafedzic, Atka (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1970
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Yugoslavia (birth)
New Zealand (residence) - Local de nascimento
- Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- Locais de residência
- Christchurch, New Zealand
Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia - Ocupações
- journalist
graphic designer
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Atka Reid was born in Sarajevo in 1970. At the outbreak of the Bosnian war, she was a political science student. During the war, she worked as a reporter for a local radio station and as an interpreter for the foreign press. Upon her arrival in New Zealand in 1993 she worked as a journalist in Christchurch. She later gained a Diploma in graphic design and worked as a graphic designer. She and Andrew, the New Zealand photojournalist she met in Sarajevo, live in New Zealand with their two sons.
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OK, the two authors of this book had an important story to tell. These two sisters and their family lived through the Siege of Sarajevo, beginning in 1992. The Muslim family living in Sarajevo was very large - ten kids! Two of the kids, one twelve and the other fifteen were evacuated to Croatia. Another daughter was in Vienna when the siege began so she too later lived with her sisters in Croatia. The rest, along with their mother and father and two grandmothers lived through the Siege from March 1992 through November 1995. The mother chose to return to Sarajevo. 10.000 were killed. 60.000 were wounded. Remember this was in Europe; this was in recent times. And what did the UN do? Not much of anything.... What did the European Union do? Very little. It was very hard to listen to this because it felt so close in both time and place. It felt like next door! And I have been in Zagreb where the three girls in Croatia stayed. It spooked me. What happened to this family will shake you, and it is a story that needs to be told. If you want to know exactly what it might have been like to be there in Sarajevo during this war, read this book. You also hear what it was like for the three girls alone in Zagreb, not knowing what was happening to their family. You will get all the facts clearly presented.
It almost feels like a young adult book though. Why? because everything is explained very simply, but yes, also correctly. Their is love too, and jokes and the dialogs are what you hear on any modern day TV show. It is accurate, but don't look for nuanced ideas or skilled writing.
The narration of the audiobook was done by Bernadette Dune. It was fine, and you know what I mean by that. Not special, just OK. Just ordinary talking. It could have been better. Since the story is told by both twelve year old Hanna and her twenty-one year old sister Atka, it would have been better if the intonations were a bit different for the two. I didn't mix them up though. You always knew who was speaking because they were in different places. You could tell who was speaking by what was going on.
The content of the book pulls you in, but how it was written is just ordinary.… (mais)
It almost feels like a young adult book though. Why? because everything is explained very simply, but yes, also correctly. Their is love too, and jokes and the dialogs are what you hear on any modern day TV show. It is accurate, but don't look for nuanced ideas or skilled writing.
The narration of the audiobook was done by Bernadette Dune. It was fine, and you know what I mean by that. Not special, just OK. Just ordinary talking. It could have been better. Since the story is told by both twelve year old Hanna and her twenty-one year old sister Atka, it would have been better if the intonations were a bit different for the two. I didn't mix them up though. You always knew who was speaking because they were in different places. You could tell who was speaking by what was going on.
The content of the book pulls you in, but how it was written is just ordinary.… (mais)
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chrissie3 | 2 outras críticas | Aug 31, 2013 |
chrissie3 | 2 outras críticas | Aug 31, 2013 | This is an account of two sisters experiences of life in Sarajevo in 1992. It is a very moving story, simply told. It made me appreciate how fortunate I am to live in a peaceful country and what it is to witnes not only the destruction of your homeland but your family life torn apart.
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- 2
- Membros
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- Popularidade
- #253,411
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
- Línguas
- 1
Goodbye Sarajevo is the experiences of two sisters Atka and Hana, and their family. During the siege the family became separated. Their mother and a sister get stuck in Vienna as part of a delegation solicitating aid, and the eldest brother is a (muslim) soldier with the JNA trying to defect and make his way home. Atka is the eldest of 10 siblings, and when an opportunity arises for Hana and another sister to escape to the Croatian coast on one of the last UN buses out of Sarajevo, Atka sees them off. She, along with the remainder of the family are left in a city shelled almost daily and with the constant threat of sniper fire.
Through alternating chapters Atka and Hana tell of their family's experiences, along with the more universal story of civilians in a warzone and of the refugees who made it out. Through Atka readers learn of the fear and depravation, and the struggle to continue as normal a routine as possible for the younger children. Hana meanwhile struggles with her refugee status, totally reliant on the goodwill of strangers and her concern for family members left behind, all while attempting to make the most of educational opportunities she dearly wants. There is an emphasis from both Hana and Atka on the anxiety caused by an inability to reliably communicate with family and friends, although foreign journalists acting as an informal postal service helped.
The alternating chapters and the refugee/warzone civilian prespectives allow Atka and Hana to convey a fuller idea of the effects of the Sarajevo siege. Although written in a straightforward manner, and with the distance of time, their story loses none of its impact.
Atka eventually meets, and marries a New Zealand photo journalist. Their expectations of remaining in Bosnia are frustrated by medical necessity and they settle in New Zealand. I have to admit to a few tears reading the story of Atka's father in law Bill, and realising his determination paid off, with Atka's family eventually being reunited.… (mais)