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Black Butterflies: the exquisitely crafted debut novel that captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo
Priscilla Morris
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS’ CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NOTA BENE PRIZE 2023
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Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.
When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. Reluctant to believe that ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Duckworth
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780715654644
SKU
9780715654644
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About Priscilla Morris
Priscilla Morris is the daughter of a Bosnian mother and a Cornish father. She grew up in London, spending summers in Sarajevo, and studied at Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia, where she gained her PhD in Creative Writing. She teaches Creative Writing at University College Dublin and divides her time between Ireland and Spain. Black Butterflies is ... Read more
Reviews for Black Butterflies: the exquisitely crafted debut novel that captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo
'Feels totally authentic… Along with human kindness, there is a quiet emphasis on the power of art: Zora’s paintings, like the existence of this book, are testimony to the way that wars come and go but art goes on forever’ The Sunday Times 'A lyrical, devastating and timely love letter to war-torn Sarajevo... There are moments of shocking brutality set against others of ... Read more