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Author : Wayne S. Vucinich
Publisher : Promotion of Science and Scholarship
ISBN 13 : 9780930664275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of My Childhood in Yugoslavia written by Wayne S. Vucinich and published by Promotion of Science and Scholarship. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sofija Stefanovic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501165763
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Miss Ex-Yugoslavia written by Sofija Stefanovic and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sofija Stefanovic’s beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art? Stefanovic hits all her marks, and she keeps us in her thrall.” —Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist “Funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places. I loved it.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy A funny, dark, and tender memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in Belgrade, the capital of socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her, ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic's early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state. As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history. Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Baby-Sitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist who yearns to take control of her own story. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, Miss Ex-Yugoslavia introduces a vital new voice to the immigrant narrative.
Author : Savo Heleta
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Not My Turn to Die written by Savo Heleta and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, Savo Heleta was a young Serbian boy enjoying an idyllic, peaceful childhood in Gorazde, a primarily Muslim city in Bosnia. At the age of just thirteen, Savo's life was turned upside down as war broke out. When Bosnian Serbs attacked the city, Savo and his family became objects of suspicion overnight. Through the next two years, they endured treatment that no human being should ever be subjected to. Their lives were threatened, they were shot at, terrorized, put in a detention camp, starved, and eventually stripped of everything they owned. But after two long years, Savo and his family managed to escape. And then the real transformation took place. From his childhood before the war to his internment and eventual freedom, we follow Savo's emotional journey from a young teenager seeking retribution to a peace-seeking diplomat seeking healing and reconciliation. As the war unfolds, we meet the incredible people who helped shape Savo's life, from his brave younger sister Sanja to Meho, the family friend who would become the family's ultimate betrayer. Through it all, we begin to understand this young man's arduous struggle to forgive the very people he could no longer trust. At once powerful and elegiac, Not My Turn to Die offers a unique look at a conflict that continues to fascinate and enlighten us.
Author : Rusko Matuli?
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493190784
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III written by Rusko Matuli? and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pajtim Statovci
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871830
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book My Cat Yugoslavia written by Pajtim Statovci and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant in a country suspicious of foreigners, but a gay man in an unaccepting society. Aside from casual hookups, his only friend is a boa constrictor whom, improbably—he is terrified of snakes—he lets roam his apartment. Then, during a visit to a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat who moves in with him and his snake. It is this witty, charming, manipulative creature who starts Bekim on a journey back to Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the magical, cruel, incredible history of his family. And it is this that, in turn, enables him finally, to open himself to true love—which he will find in the most unexpected place
Author : Aneta Marovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646927466
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Chestnut Street written by Aneta Marovich and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965 a young woman disembarks at Mascot Airport in Sydney with her family. They have migrated from Yugoslavia to seek a better life. 'What have you brought with you?' asks the immigration officer.This memoir is about the intangible but vital belongings that arrivals carry with them. They are pictures of the past; in her case landscapes in verdant colours, a state built on utopian ideals, family ties which will stretch across continents. The author's childhood unfolded in post-war socialist Yugoslavia, a society aspiring to fairness and equality. Some of those principles worked, some were corrupted. The Church, opposed but tolerated, continued to ring the bells of faith.The central character threads her way through opposing ideologies as she swears her allegiance to the socialist state and has her first communion as well. Importantly, her family is affectionate and supportive even as it changes and shrinks around her.Chestnut street where she lives provides a backdrop of changing seasons and moods as the story unfolds.All of this, unnoticed, she brings with her to Mascot Airport.
Author : Elisabeth Horvath Dunman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449064027
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book From Jugoslavia to America written by Elisabeth Horvath Dunman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was rumored that the communist partisans planned to destroy Sremska Mitrovica, Jugoslavia as the German Military retreated, the father persuaded the mother to leave the city for a short time, taking the five children and her mother to a safe place until the fighting was over. They boarded the over-crowded last train going west, away from the terror that was imminent. They had no idea where they were going nor how long they would have to be away from home. The father could not leave the city; he was drafted into a "home guard" and charged with protecting the city. The family never returned to Sremska Mitrovica. Separated during the war, miraculously all family members, except for one son, were reunited in the American Sector of Austria. The second oldest son had been living and working near Berlin, Germany as a foreign worker. "Liberated" by the Russians he was sent "home" to Jugoslavia, which was by then behind the iron curtain leaving him with no chance of joining his family in the west. They endured fear, discrimination and persecution during the post-war years in a country of which they did not even speak the language. The family lived in deplorable conditions in a makeshift "Displaced Person's camp", commonly known as a "D.P.camp". The family survived hunger, displacement and many other hardships with patience and courage while relying on their faith.
Author : Goran Pesic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684541119
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Once Upon a Childhood in Yugoslavia written by Goran Pesic and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorable and fully illustrated book on extraordinary days of childhood during the Cold War times when Yugoslavia was led by Marshall Tito. It is an amazing account on how children lived in this country during the Cold War era. On one interesting way, this 240 pages book follows author's life and explains the ways of how this socialist system treated children and their families, and it describes all of the adventures kids had in this urban setting of newly built New Belgrade. It is an amazing experience of witnessing and understanding this different and unique country and its times and learning about things we only heard about in news reports... This is an opportunity to compare our own childhood experiences with those in a different political and economic system¿And¿ there is something for everyone to find, discover, read, enjoy, and learn in¿Once Upon a Childhood in Yugoslavia
Author : Ulf Brunnbauer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498519563
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Globalizing Southeastern Europe written by Ulf Brunnbauer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the United States. This massive movement of people ended in 1914 but remained consequential long thereafter, as emigration had created networks, memories, and attitudes that shaped social and political practices in Southeastern Europe long after the emigrants had left. This book’s main concern is to reconstruct the political and socioeconomic impact of emigration on Southeastern Europe. In contrast to migration studies’ traditional focus on immigration, this book concentrates on the sending countries. The author provides a comparative analysis of the socioeconomic causes and consequences of emigration and argues that migrant networks and emulation effects were crucial for the persistence of migration inclinations. It also brings the state back in the emigration story and discusses political responses towards emigration by governments in the region before 1914. Emigration policy became closely aligned with nation-building and social engineering. These stances continued even after emigration had subsided: interwar Yugoslavia, which is studied in detail, tried to create a Yugoslav “diaspora” in America by turning emigrants from its territory into expatriate citizens. Hence, a nationalizing state exploited transnational linkages. The book closes with the emigration policies of communist Yugoslavia until the early 1960s,when experiments and experiences of the government were crucial for its eventual decision to liberalize labor migration to the West (the only communist government to do so). A paramount reason for this was the fact that emigrants, both as a place of memory and a source of remittances, continued to be significant. This book therefore presents emigration as a complex social phenomenon that requires a multifaceted historical approach in order to reveal the effects of migration on different temporal and spatial scales.
Author : Nadja Halilbegovich
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554532674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book My Childhood Under Fire written by Nadja Halilbegovich and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Bombs are exploding all over the city. I hide my feelings from everyone, but I am drowning in despair. When will this war end? For how long will my life consist of the dead space between two explosions?? --- June 6, 1995 On the first day of the siege of Sarajevo, 12-year-old Nadja Halilbegovich's life changed forever. In the face of constant tank and sniper fire, daily life in this beautiful, mountain-ringed city was suddenly full of fear. Without reliable electricity, water or medical supplies, the blockaded city ground to a halt. Nadja and her fellow citizens tried desperately to live normal lives while forced to scrounge for even the most basic necessities. My Childhood Under Fire is Nadja's diary of the years 1992-95. It is her personal account of becoming a teenager during wartime. It is also a monument to the thousands killed during the siege of Sarajevo and to the millions of children around the world who still live --- and die --- under fire.
Author : Mary Ann Reilly
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607524597
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Deepening Literacy Learning written by Mary Ann Reilly and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stipe Mesi?
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9639241814
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)
Download or read book The Demise of Yugoslavia written by Stipe Mesi? and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political memoir by a key witness to the chain of events that would send the Balkan empire toppling, aided by notable figures like Slobodan Milosević . In the early 1990s, following a series of violent conflicts on Slovenian and Croatian soil, the two republics succeeded from Yugoslavia, which would later be followed by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. Mesić was member, later last head of the Yugoslav Presidency. His memoir details an intricately woven storyline, which analyzes events, personalities and motivations inside Yugoslavia, as well as in the international arena. Extensive notes and a short chronology assist the interested reader and scholar in disentangling the complicated plot.
Author : Cindy Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495195235
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Serbian Refugee written by Cindy Parker and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374716250
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You written by Aleksandar Hemon and published by MCD. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada—of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course—his parents, sister, uncles, cousins—and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians. My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents—a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer. In the words of Colum McCann, “Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.” Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.
Author : Katherine Hoeger Flotz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965779326
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)
Download or read book A Pebble in My Shoe written by Katherine Hoeger Flotz and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of the author's early life in Gakowa, Yugoslavia, followed by the Russian occupation and then Serbian takeover of her village. The ethnic Germans were taken to labor camps in the Soviet Union or to concentration camps in Gakowa and Kruschiwl.
Author : Jasna Levinger-Goy
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399098632
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Out of the Siege of Sarajevo written by Jasna Levinger-Goy and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrors of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the very heart of Europe in 1992, may be all but forgotten – but not by everyone. In this book, Jasna Levinger-Goy offers a vivid, personal story of a family of Jewish origin who identified as Yugoslavs. It traces their journey over a period of ten years, starting with their life in Sarajevo under siege and ending in the United Kingdom. Without belonging to any of the warring factions, this is Levinger-Goy's true story, a story that takes place on the front lines in the heart of Sarajevo. The book offers a percipient view of the civil war through the eyes of those who witnessed it. We are presented here with the motives, reactions and behaviour of people caught in the crossfire of political and military events outside their control. It illustrates coping with dangers and the resourcefulness needed during the siege and during the perilous journey out, which were needed almost as much in adapting to new circumstances and in building a new life. Levinger-Goy’s venture into the unknown is tangled with the sense of loss – of home, of a country and the loss of identity. Her experience provides an insightful commentary on how these intersect, overlap and ultimately affect an individual. It sheds light on human suffering and resilience, frailty and ingenuity, cruelty and empathy. It describes unique personal circumstances, but illustrates universal behaviours. Although the book inevitably deals with fear, pain, desperation, loss, and even hatred, it also reveals much about love, hope and happiness and above all about the prevalence of good even in the most difficult of circumstances. Set against the backdrop of a brutal conflict, this book reminds us of the very human cost of war.
Author : Zvonimir Vukovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Balkan Tragedy--Yugoslavia, 1941-1946 written by Zvonimir Vukovich and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Zvonimir Vuckovich, participant in the nationalist resistance of General Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovich are among the most important sources for the study of the Yugoslav resistance during the nazi occupation in World War II.
