The Golden Days of My Youth

Ana Novac sets her stubborn resistance against the horror, turning her camp diary into her chief instrument of defence and revolt. The diary becomes a way of striking back at those responsible for "the beautiful days of her youth". Living through the inferno, Ana Novac records the suffering with a remarkable lucidity about human wretchedness, about the absurdity of war, about how thin the border is between executioners and victims. "Words are my trade. To find the most precise and most telling ones - to catch the incoherence of the world I live in. To be an honest witness for this world!"