Atka Reid
Autor de Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
Obras de Atka Reid
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Kafedzic, Atka (birth name)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1970
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Yugoslavia (birth)
New Zealand (residence) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
- Lugares de residencia
- Christchurch, New Zealand
Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia - Ocupaciones
- journalist
graphic designer - Biografía breve
- Atka Reid was born in Sarajevo in 1970. At the outbreak of the Bosnian war, she was a political science student. During the war, she worked as a reporter for a local radio station and as an interpreter for the foreign press. Upon her arrival in New Zealand in 1993 she worked as a journalist in Christchurch. She later gained a Diploma in graphic design and worked as a graphic designer. She and Andrew, the New Zealand photojournalist she met in Sarajevo, live in New Zealand with their two sons.
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 68
- Popularidad
- #253,411
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 7
- Idiomas
- 1
Goodbye Sarajevo is the experiences of two sisters Atka and Hana, and their family. During the siege the family became separated. Their mother and a sister get stuck in Vienna as part of a delegation solicitating aid, and the eldest brother is a (muslim) soldier with the JNA trying to defect and make his way home. Atka is the eldest of 10 siblings, and when an opportunity arises for Hana and another sister to escape to the Croatian coast on one of the last UN buses out of Sarajevo, Atka sees them off. She, along with the remainder of the family are left in a city shelled almost daily and with the constant threat of sniper fire.
Through alternating chapters Atka and Hana tell of their family's experiences, along with the more universal story of civilians in a warzone and of the refugees who made it out. Through Atka readers learn of the fear and depravation, and the struggle to continue as normal a routine as possible for the younger children. Hana meanwhile struggles with her refugee status, totally reliant on the goodwill of strangers and her concern for family members left behind, all while attempting to make the most of educational opportunities she dearly wants. There is an emphasis from both Hana and Atka on the anxiety caused by an inability to reliably communicate with family and friends, although foreign journalists acting as an informal postal service helped.
The alternating chapters and the refugee/warzone civilian prespectives allow Atka and Hana to convey a fuller idea of the effects of the Sarajevo siege. Although written in a straightforward manner, and with the distance of time, their story loses none of its impact.
Atka eventually meets, and marries a New Zealand photo journalist. Their expectations of remaining in Bosnia are frustrated by medical necessity and they settle in New Zealand. I have to admit to a few tears reading the story of Atka's father in law Bill, and realising his determination paid off, with Atka's family eventually being reunited.… (más)