Books from Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 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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Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Someone has opened the doors to the Village Archive, but what drives the sleepless out of their houses is not that which was stolen, but that which has escaped. Old stories, myths, and fairy tales are wandering about the streets with the people. They come together in a novel about a long night, a mosaic of village life, in which the long-established and newcomers, the dead and the living, craftsmen, pensioners, and noble robbers in football shirts bump into each other. They all want to bring something to a close, in this night before the feast.
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Byron and the Beauty by Muharem Bazdulj EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Byron and the Beauty is very loosely based on Byron's biography and takes place during two weeks of October, 1809, during his visit to the Balkans. Muharem Bazdulj marvelously combines facts with imagination, history, and romance, resulting in an exceptionally beautiful novel. Lord Byron ends up experiencing and embodying the lyrical Balkan condition of unrequited love called sevdah, but his valiant behavior also lands him in a regional folk song; this nod to changing cultural production in the Ottoman lands calls to mind the works of Ismail Kadare. From coffee to customary law, from courtship... continue
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Cómo el soldado repara el gramófono by Saša Stanišić ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
«Stanišic cuenta la guerra desde la perspectiva de un niño en Visegrado, y utiliza sabiamente todas las combinaciones posibles del drama y el humor, del destino y el juego, del realismo y lo grotesco.» Stern Aleksandar, el protagonista de este libro, vive en la pequeña ciudad bosnia de Visegrado, tiene doce años, una imaginación desbordante y una varita de mago: elementos suficientes, en su opinión, para decidir el curso de los acontecimientos. Cuando la guerra llega a Visegrado, él y su familia emprenden la huida. Desterrado en un país de Occidente, su pasión fabuladora adquiere una importanc... continue
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Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
"With unapologetic vividness, Lejla Kalamujic depicts pre- and post-war Sarajevo by charting a daughter coping with losing her mother, but discovering herself. From imagined conversations with Franz Kafka to cozy apartments, psychiatric wards, and cemeteries, Call Me Esteban is a piercing meditation on a woman grasping at memories in the name of claiming her identity."--
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Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Sheikh Nuruddin is a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. When his brother is arrested, he descends into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities in order to find out what has happened. As he does so, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish appears here in its first English translation.
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Freelander by Miljenko Jergovic ES
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
«Jergovic es un escritor épico.» Claudio Magris «Un libro sorprendente, emocionante, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso y tajante, sobre su país.» Süddeutsche Zeitung Un telegrama comunicándole la muerte de un anciano tío con el que no tenía contacto hace que Karlo Adum, un profesor de historia jubilado y viudo que trata de hacer frente a su patética soledad mediante la ironía y el cinismo, emprenda un viaje de Zagreb a Sarejevo. En su viejo Volvo del 75, su más preciada posesión, recorre un país ahora dividido en territorios croatas, bosnios y serbios. El viaje será a la vez un regreso metafórico a s... continue
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Generation haram : Warum Schule lernen muss, allen eine Stimme zu geben by Melisa Erkurt DE
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
Jetzt sind die Verlierer dran mit Reden! Die Journalistin und Lehrerin Melisa Erkurt gibt denen eine Stimme, die im System Schule nicht gehört werden. Ein Perspektivenwechsel in der Bildungsdebatte
Melisa Erkurt ist als Kind mit ihren Eltern aus Bosnien nach Österreich gekommen. Sie hat studiert. Sie arbeitet als Lehrerin und Journalistin. Sie hat es geschafft. Doch sie ist eine Ausnahme. Denn am Ende eines Schuljahres entlässt sie die Klasse mit dem Wissen, dass die meisten ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler nie ausreichend gut Deutsch sprechen werden, um ihr vorgezeic... continue
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Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war