Olivera Simić

A political memoir by a Bosnian Serb now resident in Australia, in which she she explores the challenges of peace after traumatic civil war in the country of her birth, the former Yugoslavia. She explores the meaning of ethnicity, speaking the truth about atrocities committed by one's own side, and the experience of living with PTSD. For my full review, please see Whispering Gums at: rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://whisperinggums.com/2014/09/07/olivera-simic-surviving-peace-a-political-m...… (més)

A powerful account by a woman from the former Yugoslavia of the long-term impact of the Bosnian War of the 1990s on her personally and on her people.

In telling her own story and the stories of others about the Bosnian War, Olivera Simic advocates for peace. She believes that war can never be an effective response to violence. Not only are human beings killed and maimed during the war itself, but the social and personal destruction continues after the fighting stops. “Surviving the peace” can be as difficult as war itself, as she shows us in this book. Calling her book a “political memoir,” Simic is not writing about politics but raising issues about the impact of the public, political actions such as wars have on private lives.
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