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Surviving Peace : A Political Memoir .Olivera Simic

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Author: Olivera Simic
Page Count: 188 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 2014
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Publication Country: North Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
ISBN: 9781742198941
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Surviving Peace A Political Memoir
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How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is no longer spoken and your family is divided, not just by distance but by politics too? What happens when your old identity is taken from you and a new one imposed, one that you never asked for? When Olivera Simic was seven years old, President Tito died. Old divisions re-emerged as bitter ethnic conflicts unfolded. War arrived in 1992. People were no longer Yugoslavs but Serbs, Croatians, Bosniaks. Old friends became enemies overnight. In this heartfelt account of life before, during and after the Bosnian War and the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, Simic talks of her transition from peace to war and back again. She shows how she found the determination to build a new life when the old one was irretrievable. Traversing four continents, she takes us on her winding journey from Bosnia to Australia, revealing the complex challenges of adjusting to life in a new country and exposing the harsh reality of the post-traumatic stress that accompanies her.Simic strives to find the balance between wanting to move on to a different future and a pressing need to look back at a past that wont go away. The pull of her homeland remains irresistible despite it being ravaged by destruction, and her exposure of the war crimes that took place there means she is labelled both a 'traitor' and a 'truth seeker'.

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