Who is Malik and Alica (Zlata's Father and Mother) from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo and what is their importance? Zlata's_Diary English & Literature Malik and Alica (Zlata's Father and Mother) | Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

Malik and Alica are perhaps in their forties or early fifties, and are the parents to Zlata. They love Zlata and are chiefly concerned with her well-being and the family's continued survival. Alica has a job in another part of town, as a chemist. That part of Sarajevo gets largely destroyed and becomes so dangerous that Alica must abandon her job and stay home. Malik is a lawyer whose offices are close by, but soon after the outbreak of war he stops his job as well to concentrate on survival.