HOTEL SARAJEVO - Softcover

Jack Kersh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885983212 ISBN 13: 9781885983213

Publisher: TURTLE POINT PRESS, 1998

Synopsis

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 day dreamer who has taken up reisdence with a group of teenage orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo. They live as a family for more than a year scavenging for their daily needs.

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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.

Synopsis:

Chronicles the coming of age of Alma, a fourteen-year-old girl, a precocious daydreamer who takes up residence with a group of teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo.

About this edition

• Publisher: TURTLE POINT PRESS
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1885983212
• ISBN 13: 9781885983213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240