04222cam a2200841 4500 527414606 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781609807962 1609807960 B01N4OGJ4E Amazon 4c7d2be2-279a-4918-b7b3-2bc152f9fd9b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 556180 556180 556180 3225108 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bodrozic, Ivana. The Hotel Tito [Libby] : A Novel. Seven Stories Press, 2017. family. World War II. Friendship. literary fiction. War. Historical. family life. romance. book club. culture. Yugoslavia. Fiction. European History. novels. Coming of age. World History. ww2. Military. Young Adult. women. Civil War. Drama. Modern. Military Fiction. feminism. History. Croatia. fiction books. realistic fiction. book club recommendations. history books. historical books. gifts for history buffs. military books. war books. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. books fiction. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3727kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3727kB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.<br /></b><i><br /> Hotel Tito</i> is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrožić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for eighty-seven days. When the army broke the siege, people came up out of the basements where they'd been sheltering from bombardment; women and children were allowed out of the besieged city, but the army bused 400 men from the hospital to a farm on the outskirts where soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries massacred them. Bodrožić's father was among those taken and murdered.<br /> In <i>Hotel Tito</i>, after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a former communist school in the village of Kumrovec (the birthplace of Josip Tito). For years they share a single room just large enough for their three beds, waiting to hear whether the narrator's father survived and when they'll be granted an apartment of their own.<br /> In the meantime life goes on for the teenage protagonist, first loves bloom and burn quickly, new friendships are acquired and lost, new truths emerge, and new emotions. But she never loses her shy, insightful voice, nor her self-deprecating sense of humor. <i>Hotel Tito</i> is a sensitive and forthright coming of age novel in a time of atrocity and loss. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Elias-Bursac, Ellen. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4c7d2be2-279a-4918-b7b3-2bc152f9fd9b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4c7d2be2-279a-4918-b7b3-2bc152f9fd9b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4c7d2be2-279a-4918-b7b3-2bc152f9fd9b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)