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Ten Thousand Shells & Counting
A Memoir
2020
First Published
4.38
Average Rating
212
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Sarajevo 1992: a page-turning witness account of teenage life in a city at war that will immerse you in a world where survival is the only thought. At the age of fourteen, Nadija watches from her window as tanks roll into the airport across the street. It’s the beginning of the Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital. When a sniper kills their next-door neighbor, Nadija and her family are forced to flee. Where can they find safe refuge? How does this young girl cope during the terrifying and seemingly never-ending war? Ten Thousand Shells and Counting is the true and occasionally humorous story of a teenager who learns to survive under the brutal war-sculpted lifestyle and losses under siege.

Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author

Nadija Mujagic
Nadija Mujagic
Author · 16 books

Nadija Mujagić was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, what used to be the former Yugoslavia back in the late 1970s. In 1997, she moved to the United States shortly after the end of the Bosnian War and has lived in Massachusetts since. In her spare time, she enjoys playing sports and electric bass guitar. Visit her website for more information: http://nadijamujagic.com

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