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Recommended books (14)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. 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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Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašic EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
‘Two young women plunging into post-war Bosnia like two Alices into Wonderland . . . smart, energetic, passionate, announcing a major talent.’ - Aleksandar Hemon Sara hasn’t seen or heard from her childhood best friend, Lejla, in years. She’s comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls her and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can’t say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla’s brother who disappeared towards the end of t... continue
Genre Travel
Recommended: 20 Apr 2022

3.

Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selminovic EN

Rating: 4     10 Votes
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.
Genre
Recommended: 19 Feb 2022

4.

Der verdammte Hof by Ivo Andrić DE

Rating: 3     1 Vote
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Recommended: 02 Sep 2023

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Goodbye Sarajevo : A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Description:
A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war
Recommended: 04 Sep 2022

6.

How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic EN

Rating: 4.5     4 Votes
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
Recommended: 01 Nov 2022

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Mars by Asja Bakić EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Description:
A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the former Eastern Bloc.
Recommended: 07 Mar 2023

8.

Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic EN

0 Ratings
Description:
From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout...
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Recommended: 05 Jan 2023

9.

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric, Ivo Andríc EN

Rating: 4.5     8 Votes
Description:
Portrays the dramatic lives of the people living in a small town near a huge stone bridge in the Balkans

10.

The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric EN

Rating: 4     25 Votes
Recommended: 20 Feb 2022


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