Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. She was an ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl, and her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna fan club, her piano lessons, her friends andher new skis[...]
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 typica[...]