- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Granta Books (8 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184708057X
- ISBN-13: 978-1847080578
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 407,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`An exquisite, careful writer ... Maric conveys the unsettling, often magical experience of losing her roots' - Sunday Times --Review
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`Her confident, beguiling voice .. is a voice we will hear more of in the future' - Guardian
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Vived and emotionally revealing.,
By Michael Watson "skirrow22" (Halifax, England) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bluebird: A Memoir (Paperback)
I seem to have been given quite a few books lately which I normally wouldn't have bought for myself. Bluebird is one of them and my reluctance to read it was tempered by the fact that this Bosnian refugee spent much of her time in the UK in places close to my home.
The fact that she writes so well (I confess to looking for a translator's name on the book) must be testament to her own determination to learn but also to something good coming out of the friendship of local people. Her anecdotes are so vivid and recount our own domestic scenarios but from a refugee's perception - and it's not always a pretty sight. The fact that her story begins with the death and destruction in her own country, indeed in her home town leads one to view her commentary of the UK in a much more forceful light. I don't know if Vesna Maric has the intention to write any further books; my copy was bagged by a friend before I wrote this review so I couldn't check. I hope she does. Her illumination of life is not only revealing but especially lively in its truest sense that I shall keep a watch out for her.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Bluebird: A Memoir (Paperback)
This is a wonderful memoir with a light touch that plays with the reader but manages also to underline its darker themes of war and loss, together with the writer's experience as a young refugee in Britain - a timely reminder to all of us of how our lives can be turned upside down in an instant. Without any preaching or whining, Maric turns a lens on our attitudes to refugees and the 'do-gooders' who surround them. Recommended.
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wonderful book,
By Mark Twain (salamanca) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bluebird: A Memoir (Paperback)
This is a great read, sharply told and addressed directly to the reader without being a lecture, just stuff you might (I would say should) be interested in about growing up. I contest Gunnar of Sweden's criticisms, there's plenty about culture clash in here, but there's also a lot about how the author doesn't want to be 'the opposite of the West' and identifies with English ways. That actually makes it a lot more subtle than many books on the topic.
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