Balkan war story sacrifices real impact for intellect
Fiction
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 ...