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Published: Feb. 01, 2011
Words: 97,774 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458192042
Short description
The far-reaching effects of civil war on a child from divided Sarajevo and the foster parents who bring her to England's Oxfordshire.Extended description
When journalist Mike and his wife Sara decide to foster a 12-year-old Bosnian refugee, they have no premonition of the far-reaching consequences. Jasminka evolves from a traumatised child of the bitter ethnic conflicts of besieged Sarajevo into Minkie, an English schoolgirl-with-a-difference in a village in Middle England. She also becomes the daughter Mike has always wanted and Sara cannot have, and one of the excuses for Sara to resume an old affair. Mike’s assignments continue to take him to Bosnia and Serbia and he finds himself emotionally drawn into the conflict for reasons he could never have imagined and which have a profound effect on the deepening rift at home. As shifting international tensions are about to change the world forever, Minkie returns to Sarajevo to seek her roots and decide her future, just as Mike and Sara must decide on theirs in these early days of September 2001.Tags
reconciliation, civil war, yugoslavia, balkans, war in europe, bosnia war, war torn, oxfordshire, englands oxfordshireAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Ian Mathie
on July 23, 2012 :
Another Kind of Loving is a powerful story of families surviving civil war. It is rich in the diverse characters one finds throughout the Balkans or the calm fields of rural Oxfordshire and the story switches between these two arenas, subtly shifting the strains that the overt conflict imposes on the players.
Sylvie Nickels knows the Balkans and its peoples well and this comes across clearly in her story. At the same time she is a master story teller, weaving complex plots from the simplest ideas and giving vibrant colour to her characters. Here we meet Mike, a foreign correspondent in war torn Bosnia who meets and brings a young girl, Jasminka, home to his unsuspecting wife in Oxfordshire. At first there is tension as the child speaks little English, but arrangements have to be made and she is soon sent to the local school. With the adaptability of youth, Jasminka learns fast, soon metamorphosing into Minkie, a popular and energetic teenager, secure in a loving home and making the best of all the opportunities Mike and his wife give her.
Then the war intrudes as she meets people she knew back in Bosnia. Also refugees from the conflict, they have very different standards from those Minkie has learned, and very different aspirations.
This book offers vivid insights into the minutiae of civil war and what it does to individuals and families. The characters grow on you until you feel they are part of your own family but in the background, lurking in the shadows, there is always that fear that something awful will intrude and shatter the peace. This is all woven into a beautiful series of love stories, each poignant in its own way and all interlinking whilst barely interacting.
Whilst Another Kind of Loving is the first book in a trilogy, it is complete and powerful and will stand alone, but it is even better when read with the two following books, Beyond the Broken Gate and Long Shadows.
Strongly recommended.
(review of free book)