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Time Kneels Between Mountains: Amra Pajalic

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Meet Amra Pajalic author of Time Kneels Between Mountains

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Meet Amra Pajalic author of Time Kneels Between Mountainsaward winning author, educator, and PhD researcher. In 2009 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, which has since been re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma. Her latest novel, Time Kneels Between Mountains is a wonderful book. It is set in 1992 in Srebrenica,  a town in Bosnia which experienced deep conflict and trauma at this point in history. It tells the story of the teenage girl Seka, who tries to fight against the injustices she sees during this time of collective trauma, and also her fight to survive.

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