Leyla : Bir bosnalı kız / by Alexandra Cavelius.

For other people the war has ended. For us it has only just begun'. So begins this story of a young Bosnian girl living in the multi-ethnic society of a small town near Sarajevo during the war in Yugoslavia and charting its course and hers through the horrors of ethnic cleansing to the forthcoming trials in the Hague. We witness dislocation, the brutality of organised rape camps, and other traumatic happenings experienced by Leila including the birth of her child. Balancing the grief are comradeship, alliance, and love in unexpected contexts and from unexpected sources. Yet responding to these, it transpires, is in many ways as difficult as dealing with terror; and even with the special therapy offered by a local clinic this problem remains unresolved when the narrative ends. Also to be faced are the tyrannies of unemployment and financial need, as brutally divisive at times as the war itself.

Turkish.