My Name Is Bosnia

"Sabaheta is a literature student at the University of Sarajevo when war breaks out in Bosnia-Herzegovina. After her brother is taken by armed thugs and her mother descends into madness, she goes into the forest with her father to join the guerrillas, where she dresses like a boy and fights side-by-side with the men. When her father is killed in combat, Sabaheta gives him a makeshift funeral and vows one day to leave her homeland and seek a country where she can pursue her studies and live in peace. Although she is not an observant Muslim, she decides once again to wear the traditional headscarf and changes her name to Bosnia, making her way along to Sarajevo to reunite with her friends." "Finally escaping their genocidal homeland, they rise from its ashes of violence and hatred, remaking themselves in the images kept in their hearts of a fabled new life in a foreign land."--BOOK JACKET.Gagnon, Madeleine is the author of 'My Name Is Bosnia' with ISBN 9780889225428 and ISBN 0889225427.