Adem's Cross

by Alice Mead

Book Overview

Fourteen-year old Adem, an Albanian boy, lives in Serb-occupied Kosovo. Adem hates existing in a constant state of terror. Every week, friends and family are beaten, teargassed, and killed. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374300577
• ISBN13: 9780374300579
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Very good book... wish she writes for adults!

This is very good book... I wish she writes for adults... I prefer it to any kid in the world....

Great book

Believe me,this book is so beautifully written.As a Kosovar I've found it amazing how Alice could make such a great story which in fact most of it or perhaps all of it is true because these sort of things hapenned very often in Kosova. I would highly recommend this book to all of you - no matter what age you are...Well done Alice and Keep Writing as your books will always have a spare place on my library...The best of luck

Adem's Cross

The author has traveled to Kosova/Kosovo, both before and after the NATO airstrikes there, and is currently active in attempts to release Kosovar Albanian prisoners held by the government in Belgrade. In Adem's Cross, the author attempts to depict rural life in Kosova/Kosovo during Serb rule, from the perspective of a Kosovar Albanian teenager, Adem(Adam). The humanity of individual Serbs and Roma(Gypsies), the ineffectiveness of several policies of the Democratic League of Kosova(LDK), the depictions of the city of Prizren and the nearby border with Albania, the views of Kosovar Albanians toward the then raging war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the prediction of future intervention over Kosova/Kosovo by the United States, make this book unique, in that it was published before the open emergence of organized armed resistance in Kosova/Kosovo, let alone the start of involvement by NATO.

Adem's Cross

Adem's Cross is a wondeful book it's easy to read and very informative. This book makes you want to reach out and help these people. It's captivating and exciting, your always on your toes and it ends very well.A+

Enlightment in the darkness

A fictional account of the contemporary reality of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavian Republic territory of Kossovo, told through the eyes of a young child, this is a saga that adults as well as young readers will find shocking and all the more so as the fictional events are echoed in our daily newspapers. A must read,which I don't quite understand is only located in the young adult sections of most libraries.