Black ButterFly

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I love Robert Drake. I think he's such an amazing author. This is the first book of his that I read but I do have the other ones. Now, while I have to finish reading some of the other books I have yet to finish and then I'll start with his other ones. This article about a novel of the 2000s with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender theme is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Set in 1992, Zora Kočović is an art professor who lives in Sarajevo with her husband, Franjo (a former journalist), and her 83 years old mother. Sarajevo is a multicultural city (where the city is full of the Muslim, Serb, Croat, and Yugoslav populations) but racial sentiments, and ethnic tensions have arisen, and conflict is brewing. At this point in time, Zora decided to stay in Sarajevo for her painting and her job while Franjo and her mother traveled to England to visit their daughter Dubravka. Unfortunately, subsequent to the recognition of Bosnia as an independent and sovereign nation, the Bosnian War broke out and Sarajevo was under siege. Zora is trapped in Sarajevo and she is forced to maneuver around the constant bombings, shellings, and violence happening in the city, together with her neighbors and friends, and she has to resort to art to keep herself sane. Art is also an important thread of the book. This is what Zora does and also really the way she expresses her love for the city and also her emotions towards it. Initially we see her painting its bridges and landscapes—and later the destruction and fires that take over the city. Art also ends up offering her solace, when she feels lost, for her neighbours sending their little daughter Una for lessons gives her (in fact them both) something to look forward to. and so is this book, you will smile, you will cry, you will think!! And maybe thats what I enjoyed most about this book, that it makes you think deeply about the things around you, to really appreciate the people you have in your life or had and due to certain circumstance arent apart of your life ~whether by death or just life happens~.

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With that resolved, Box is knighted, and renews the acquaintance of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, whom he once met at a party on Armistice Day 1918. If anything, it has done the antithesis of spurring my dormant writer's hand into action. It has submerged the wont to a discontented winter in the far reaches of my creative mind. Priscilla Morris took me inside the siege of Sarajevo through the eyes of Zora Kocovic, a Bosnian Serb painter, who finds herself trapped in the Bosnian capital and survives to escape during the bitter winter of 1992. A remarkable account of the strength of art, love, and hope in the face of war. The prose was beautiful, showing the limitlessness of inspiration and human connection as clear and bright as paint on a canvas. I also very thoroughly appreciated that this story helped to uplift the voices of a people seldom heard in mainstream media. A haunting and resonating new novel.

This was just Long Listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction That is my favorite awards competition. But when the unrest intensifies and all avenues to leave are gradually shut down, she is trapped, alone but for her neighbors and students, deriving comfort and support from one another. Braving the elements and coping with food shortages no electricity, no heat and no water while trying to stay alive amid mortar fire and sniper bullets they also bear witness to the destruction of the city they all love and the lives they built around it.The siege of Sarajevo is told through the eyes of Serbian artist, Zora Kocovic,as she witnesses her city crumble from the shelling of snipers in the mountains surrounding Sarajevo. Her apartment building, art studio (which sits above the library), are obliterated by the incessant bombing. The most devastating results in the death of innocent children and adults murdered while attempting to lead their “normal” and ordinary lives. This novel approaches the siege from a middle-aged woman artists point of view. It's also particularly well done and I was surprised how compelling it was. I just couldn't stop listening. This was a wonderful though heart-breaking book which kept me reading all through, and one which I highly recommend.