Pretty Birds

Brutalized and forced into hiding by the Bosnian Serbs' war of ethnic cleansing, Irena, a Muslim high-school basketball star, is separated from her best friend, Amela, a Christian, is recruited to become a sniper, and becomes a pawn in the dangerous chess game of political maneuvering and power struggle in the war-torn city of Sarajevo. 25,000 first printing.