Black Butterflies: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023

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The title has heartrending significance: ‘black butterflies’ are fragments of paper carried on the breeze after the burning of the National Library of Sarajevo, 30 years ago last month.

I do appreciate this novel for its ability to bring me deeply into a previously-unknown period of human history.Meni su utisak pokvarile rečenice tipa sve je lakše udvoje, noževi u mom srcu i slično, koje autorka ubacuje kad god pokušava da opiše napetu situaciju ili neki trenutak solidarnosti.

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She studied at Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia, where she gained a PhD in Creative Writing.

Nisam baš sigurna šta sam tačno očekivala, ali ovo što sam dobila je onako, recimo ok, tačno pisana za zapadnjake. It's been a long time since then and I thought I'd had my fill until this novel by Priscilla Morris came along with its enticing cover, for the 30th anniversary of the siege.As the shelling begins, Zora pleads with her husband to take her elderly mother to stay with her married daughter in England. This beautifully written story underlines the contrast between the horrors of the male dominated war in daily details like not being able to flush the toilet for months, and the strength of the human soul portrayed in the female artist. Hauntingly beautiful Priscilla weaves human helplessness and hopelessness, love and loss together - real emotions without the dramatic.