Between Before and After

By: Edita Mujkic

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Paperback | 1 March 2022

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Multi-awarded Memoir. In 1992 Edita Mujkic fled war-torn Sarajevo with two young children, in a borrowed car, with two bags and fifty American dollars in her pocket. Her husband stayed behind, trapped in an impenetrable siege.

After months of waiting for Goran in Croatia, Edita and her children moved to Northern England. Months went by while Goran’s every attempt to escape failed.

Edita knew she had to help him. But how? What could she do with her broken English, without money and contacts, and two children to look after by herself? Months turned into 600 days of involuntary separation. Australia beckoned.

This compelling true story of courage, love and humanity is a reminder of the nightmares that those fleeing conflict endure and of the difference that the simplest acts of kindness make.

About the Author

Edita Mujkic was born and raised in Sarajevo, in what was then Yugoslavia, and now is Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the war broke out in her home country, she fled Sarajevo in May 1992 with her two children. After five months in Croatia, Edita and her children moved to England where she was an interpreter for other Bosnian refugees, although at the time she could barely speak English. Two years later, in 1994, the family arrived in Melbourne.

Industry Reviews

"A beautiful, tender book about war and loss - and the triumph of two people's love for each other and their children. A story for our times. It will make your spirits soar." Michael Cathcart, ABC Radio National; "The story of one woman's patience, resilience and finding joy amidst the suffering of war - a transcendental and wise book about exile and the power of enduring love." Alice Pung; "A haunting, deeply moving memoir that journeys from war-torn Sarajevo to suburban Melbourne via England. A remarkable story of family, love, loss and separation, illuminating the tragic human consequences of ethno-nationalism, and serving as a warning for our own polarised times." Angela Smith, non-fiction writer and poet;"An intricately painted depiction of a vanished place and time, an epic love story capable of withstanding atrocities as well as a clear-eyed study of the cruelty and the kindness of strangers, Between Before and After is a book that will break your heart but will also restore your faith in the resourcefulness and the capacity for renewal of the human soul. Powerful and completely absorbing." Lee Kofman, author of Imperfect

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