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Title: Zlata's Diary (Puffin Non-fiction) by Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Krishnan Ghuru-Murphy ISBN: 0-14-037463-9 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 05 January, 1995 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (57 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A tragic and very human tale of lost childhood in Sarajevo..
Comment: I encountered Zlata's Diary in an adolescent psychology class in college. Her haunting words became the impetus behind my subsequent research in law school and other work relating to the wars in the former Yugoslav republics. I can vouch for the authenticity of Zlata Filopovic's account. Zlata's words portray a true picture of what life was like during the blockade of Sarajevo, and the feeble attempts by the international community to do something about it.

This is appropriate reading material for high school students, as well as adults who simply want to understand the horrors of the Bosnian civil war. One note of caution, however; it is not an easy book to read.

Rating: 4
Summary: This was a good book!
Comment: "Zlata's Diary" by Zlata Filipovic was a good book! For Zlata, life in Sarajevo, Bosnia was good until the war started. When the war started, she began to write in her diary. She wrote from 1991- 1993. In some of the passages in her diary, she wrote of her family and friends, such as her mom, dad, her best friend Mirna, and of her pets CiCi, and Cicko. This book reminded me of the diary of Anne Frank. Both of the girls were about the same age, and both went through extreme hardships in war. This book taught me to count my blessings, and to appreciate being safe from war. It showed how a young girl delt with war life. Bad things things happened, like the death of many of her friends and family. There were good things that happened too, like how she had matured and, learned how to value the important things in life. I thought this book was good, although I would have liked to hear more about Zlata's feelings,and less about the war. All in all, I had a good time reading this book. I liked this book because I like reading diaries of girls. I thought it was interesting to see how a young girl coped with a war life. I would definitely recommend this book to any girl who likes to read diaries, although I think that anybody would enjoy this great book!

Rating: 5
Summary: Modern-day Anne Frank
Comment: Zlata's Diary is a masterpiece. A modern-day Diary of Anne Frank is what comes to mind when I think about this book. Zlata is a girl from Sarajevo, writing as only a child can write about terrors that only adults can inflict. From start to finish, this remarkable books keeps you hoping and praying, for Zlata and for her family and friends. Her diary begins before the war, with typical young-girl items like piano lessons and parties, but quickly becomes a nightmare of bombs and guns. She escapes to Paris, and looks back with sorrow. It is a truly moving text.

Zlata writes as any girl would write, in the beginning. The early part of her diary (it begins in September 1991) deals with ideas about school starting and what happened last summer. Short entries into a girl's diary, not too deep, somewhat interesting but also very typical. She could be any girl in any city in this country. She talks about her friends, her favorite TV shows, her music lessons, and enjoying pizza.

She is 11 years old.

But in less than a year, all of that changes.

She is writing letters and entries recounting horrible events of warfare. Less than a year after she was wondering about the top songs on MTV and her music and friends, she was writing profound letters of love, life and survival.

She recounts hiding in dark, ugly cellars, and hearing bombs dropping, and being very afraid. She writes of her friend Nina who died in of shrapnel in the brain -- another 11 year old girl, just like Zlata. They went to kindergarten together, they played together. Now Nina was dead.

Zlata and members of her family escaped to Paris by December 1993; the diary ends at that point. Zlata grew up tremendously, much as Anne Frank did, during those few years of the war. She learned the terminology and dangers of war as well as any professional soldier. She learned the horrors and deprivations. She also remained a little girl, with her childish, childlike hope for peace for all.

She escaped, but how many didn't? Published in 1994 while there was still fighting in Sarajevo, this is a book of hope. And sadly the fighting hasn't stopped in that part of the world. Children have lost parents, siblings, family members, friends, and their whole way of life.

It is for them that Zlata wrote her diary. We should remember them.