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**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.
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Hotel Tito_ is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana BodroΕΎiΔ 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. BodroΕΎiΔ's father was among those taken and murdered.
In Hotel Tito , after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a...
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