Larger	Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition Author: Zlata Filipovic
	Book Information Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Book Type: Paperback Rating: 5 ISBN-13: 9780143036876 - ISBN-10: 0143036874 Publication Date: 2/28/2006 Pages: 240 Book Reviews

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovi´c becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.