Black Butterflies: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023

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Black Butterflies: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023

Black Butterflies: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023

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The sky is cerulean blue until it dims to black, with the shelling and devastation of innocent lives lost, historic buildings demolished, books and papers blown by the wind. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

The title has a special significance in the story, and this gets revealed only about the midway mark in a distressing event. Inspired by family history, the siege of Sarajevo is seen through the eyes of artist and teacher Zora. I discovered that it was the longest siege in modern warfare and it gave me insight into what living in a war zone must be like for those Ukrainians who are unable to leave. Black Butterflies is an elegy to the vibrant and inclusive society that was subjected to a murderous assault in 1992.

I get that in the horrors of war some threads will never be tied up fully, but it was a bit too open-ended for my taste. She knows all its alleys and courtyards, all its scents and sounds—the way the light falls at the end of their street in wintertime, the rattle of the tram, the blowsy roses that bloom each June in the mosque gardens, the plums and fogs in the autumn, the ponderous old men playing chess in the cafés, the mahalas—the old neighbourhoods—that radiate from the centre like the spiral of a snail’s shell.

We see the suffering of (mostly Muslim) refugees who have been forced from their homes with nothing but scars and are trying to continue their lives in Sarajevo. When the fighting starts (1992), Zora’s mother and husband flee to England, leaving Zora in Sarajevo. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. In its story of a diverse, peaceful community transformed by nationalism into a place of fear, death and destruction, it’s impossible to read Black Butterflies without thinking of the current war in Ukraine and, in particular, the siege of Mariupol. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.I went to Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro on holidays in May 2006, accidentally stumbling on an independence referendum in the latter, when it seceded from Serbia. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Set in 1992, Zora Kočović is an art professor who lives in Sarajevo with her husband, Franjo (a former journalist), and her 83 years old mother.



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