Historical fiction books set in Bosnia and Herzegovina (7)
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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić EN
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Chronicle of three centuries of Balkan life, centering around a great stone bridge in present-day Yugoslavia.
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How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone by Saša Stanišić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
“A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times). For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers invade Višegrad—a town previously unconscious of racial and religious divides—and it’s no longer important t... continue
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Un puente sobre el Drina by Ivo Andrić ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Un puente sobre el Drina (1945) es una novela de largo aliento, que transcurre en la localidad de Visegrad, frente al río Drina, desde el siglo XVI, cuando dentro del Imperio Otomano se inició la construcción del puente, atravesando diversas generaciones en la conviven cristianos, musulmanes y judíos sefaradíes, hasta llegar al fatídico 1914. La perspectiva histórica permite diferenciar las pasiones efímeras y la constante del género humano, en especial los que en cada generación contribuyen a su bienestar. Una obra de gran ... continue
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the lazarus project by Aleksandar Hemon EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
‘Prose this powerful could wake the dead’ – Observer Crossing a century of Eastern European history, The Lazarus Project is a profound exploration of alienation and the immigrant experience from Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds. On 2 March 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga, was left alone and b... continue
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Bosnian Chronicle : A Novel by Ivo Andric EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing: expansive and courtly face-to-face, brooding and scheming behind closed doors. As they have for centuries, the Bosnians themselv... continue
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Bajo presión by Faruk Šehić ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
En esta novela, Faruk Šehić sigue explorando, como poeta y soldado, “su guerra”, la de los Balcanes. Bajo presión está escrita durante una sucesión interminable de minutos aislados, los minutos del tiempo de la guerra que se dilatan a la vez que se congelan o pasan fugaces. En ellos, los espacios —todos— incluso el sexo cálido de una novia o el hogar, se degradan, se calcinan, se enlodan, se adulteran envueltos en los vapores etílicos de la rakija o la cerveza, en el humo de los cigarrillos malos, en los efectos de los analg&eac... continue
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