Hotel Sarajevo
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781885983213
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Fiction / General
Description: This is the story of Alma, a 14-year old girl coming of age in a city ravaged by war and anarchy. Alma is a plain but precocious adolescent, a daydreamer who has taken up residence with a group of teenage war orphans in the abandoned Hotel Sarajevo. They live as a family for more than a year scavenging for their daily needs.

Hotel Sarajevo is a powerfully evocative novel of exquisitely worked moods and images and Alma, the narrator, is a complex fictional character. She is at once a child playing with her rag doll, a sexually aware teenager, and a young woman with highly developed self-analytical and survival skills.