Books from Bosnia and Herzegovina
48 popular bosnian and herzegovinian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Soñé con elefantes by Ivica Đikić ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Andrija Sučić, ex soldado y antiguo miembro de la Guardia personal del primer presidente de Croacia, ha sido ejecutado delante de su casa. Hablaba fosas comunes, asesinatos de civiles… y además estaba el extraño asunto de los elefantes. Se había vuelto loco y era peligroso para quienes habían hecho negocios durante la guerra e intentaban afianzar su carrera política en la nueva Croacia. Su muerte no parece importar a nadie, excepto a su hijo secreto Boško, que trabaja en el Servicio de Seguridad Nacional y decide investigar por su cuenta. Las pe... continue
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The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed by football, by resentment of his younger sister, and by occasional trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father; and where a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. Yet this is not really a memoir. It is a lovesong to Sarajevo and to Hemon's adopted Chicago; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play football - and not for the exer... continue
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The Bosnia List : A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic, Susan Shapiro EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant... continue
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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Chronicle of three centuries of Balkan life, centering around a great stone bridge in present-day Yugoslavia.
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The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andrić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
'By the time I finished it something in me had shifted forever' Elif Shafak, New Statesman There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it. For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. Radisav, a workman, tries to hinder its construction and is impaled alive on its highest point. Beautiful Fata leaps from its parapet to escape an arranged marriage.... continue
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The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace --
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The Fortress by Meša Selimović EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.
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The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Stiks EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
In this gripping, war-torn epic novel, author Igor Stiks, a nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Award, tells the story of a celebrated writer who travels to Sarajevo to unearth devastating family secrets and the lies that have defined his life. Author Richard Richter's mother and father were always phantoms, both parents having died by the time he was four. His life, now at a crossroads, has been a jumble of invention, elusive memories, and handed-down stories. But when Richard finds his mother's hidden notebook, written by her during World War II, he discovers a confession that was never meant to be... continue