Balkan war story sacrifices real impact for intellect

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Sara Novic: ambitious novel covers the Croatian War of Independence that started in 1991
Sara Novic: ambitious novel covers the Croatian War of Independence that started in 1991

Girl At War

By Sara Novic

Little, Brown, €18.60

The girl at the centre of Sara Nović’s debut novel ultimately fights two wars, and the second one – the internal war – outlasts the first by years. Born in 1987, Nović has lived in the US and Croatia and would have been four when the Croatian War of Independence began. That ...