A Memoir
It's the year 1992. A few days after Nadija celebrates her fourteenth birthday, she watches tanks move into the Sarajevo airport across the street from her home. Yugoslavia had already fallen apart. It's the beginning of the Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital--the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. When a sniper kills their next-door neighbor, Nadija and her family are forced to flee to a neighborhood five minutes away from her home. Shortly after, Nadija's home is captured by Serbs and some of her neighbors killed. She and her family settle in an apartment without running water, electricity or heat while being perilously exposed to thousands of shells and bullets launched from the nearby enemy. She witnesses many of her friends and neighbors die in front of her eyes. She lives her teenage life in fear and uncertainty.
How does this young girl cope during the terrifying and seemingly never-ending war? Where does she find refuge in the senseless war?
Ten Thousand Shells and Counting is the true and occasionally humorous story of a teenager who learns to survive under the brutal war-sculpted lifestyle and losses under siege.
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