{"product_id":"9781609807962","title":"The Hotel Tito: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHotel Tito\u003c\/i\u003e is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrožić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for eighty-seven days. When the army broke the siege, people came up out of the basements where they'd been sheltering from bombardment; women and children were allowed out of the besieged city, but the army bused 400 men from the hospital to a farm on the outskirts where soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries massacred them. Bodrožić's father was among those taken and murdered.     \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHotel Tito\u003c\/i\u003e, after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a former communist school in the village of Kumrovec (the birthplace of Josip Tito). For years they share a single room just large enough for their three beds, waiting to hear whether the narrator's father survived and when they'll be granted an apartment of their own.      \u003cbr\u003e In the meantime life goes on for the teenage protagonist, first loves bloom and burn quickly, new friendships are acquired and lost, new truths emerge, and new emotions. But she never loses her shy, insightful voice, nor her self-deprecating sense of humor. \u003ci\u003eHotel Tito \u003c\/i\u003eis a sensitive and forthright coming of age novel in a time of atrocity and loss.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134322065648,"sku":"9781609807962","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609807962_p0.jpg?v=1763838461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609807962","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}