When Elephants Fight (2008)
“It was light, so the sun was up, but that didn’t mean she had to be up. It wasn’t like there was much of a reason to go out. There wasn’t any school today— there hadn’t been for months— and she wasn’t even supposed to go outside.
She shifted around trying to get comfortable and get back to sleep, but she knew that wasn’t really possible. Comfortable would have been in her bed in her room instead of on this thin mattress on the floor by the front door. It wasn’t safe to sleep in her room. There was too much danger of the glass being shattered by an explosion or a stray bullet. Instead, her disturbed sleep was going to give way to an equally disturbing reality.
Outside the window lay the city that was her home—Sarajevo. It was a city of natural beauty. The Mijacka River ran through the core, and it was surrounded by heavily forested hills and majestic mountains, the Dinaric Alps.
It was these mountains that brought the world to Sarajevo in 1984, when it hosted the Winter Olympics.
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