Two girls, three days, unnamed war
Two thirteen-year-old girls spend three days in a small town under intermittent fire in a war that is never named, with no sides or causes identified. The adults are absent, exhausted, or preoccupied with survival, so the girls move through shelling, soldiers, scarcity, and the wait for humanitarian aid largely on their own. They bicker, gossip, and worry about growing up while death happens around them, and the novel records the conflict only through what they see and say.