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25 popular bosnian and herzegovinian books
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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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.

13.

Nowhere Man : The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The author of the celebrated debut, "The Question of Bruno, " returns with the engrossing and hilarious mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing hero, Jozef Pronek.
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Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinović 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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16.

Soñé con elefantes by Ivica Đikić ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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 Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Chronicle of three centuries of Balkan life, centering around a great stone bridge in present-day Yugoslavia.


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The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
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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