The book The Children's History of Dafina Butchinca

At the beginning of the novel, we have this condition: “for my lost childhood. Stolen from the war. For the childhood game replaced by news, bullets, headless people, flame, and smoke. For childhood memories, whose weight is too big. For my childhood without Dad and Nanna who took his role! ”

Roman has Prologist, three long parts, and the epilogue called “Cut it”. Prologue is built through conversation between author and her son Noari, who wants to know what war is. Fortunately, he doesn't know what war is. But his mother knows. She does not confess the experiences and memories of war that night to Noari, but through the form of a novel, she gives evidence of it that when she grows up to read, he and many others, shocked readers.

Dafina says that she has long struggled with the fear of loss, oblivion, the fainting of memories, so over the past two years she has taken on intensively with the writing of this novel, which has already seen the light of publication. “My memories and experiences will already be available to the wide reader, as well as to remind of all that has happened in the Kosovo war, never to forget”, she says.

Each of the three sections of the novel consists of chapters contained in one or two events directly experienced by the main character Dafina, based on her powerful memory. The history of events is chronological, including the period from 1987, the year of Dafina's birth until 1999, when Kosovo is released. But the concentration of confession is especially in 1998-1999. Meanwhile, the epilogue is a tale of redependence of the bones of her father, who lost his life during the war.

The writer of the novel, Gzim Aliu, has indicated that <x0 children in war” is autobiographical novel, novel-witnessing about the experiences of a child in war.
To be a child in war is to have no childhood. For lost childhood, destroyed by war, says Dafina Buchinca, clearly fluently, brutally”, says G. Ali.

The reader will be involved in the confession and will be thrilled, angry, and cry, but he will be proud of the soul of a child, part of a family, of a people, of a country that finds strength within himself to love life and freedom and to defeat death and captivity! ” continues Aliu.
The “Bota confessed to Dafina Bucinca novel is so real! Scary, horrible, yet beautifully confessed!”, he ends up.

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