Books set in Serbia (8)


1.

Alondra by Dezső Kosztolányi ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
Septiembre de 1899. en una pequeña ciudad de provincias del Imperio austrohúngaro, la hija de los Vajkay, llamada cariñosamente Alondra, se dispone a pasar una semana de vacaciones con sus tíos. La despedida en la estación es dolorosa, pues los días que d

2.

El Ministerio del Dolor by Dubravka Ugresic ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Croatia flag Croatia
Description:
«Todos estábamos sumidos en el caos Ya no estábamos seguros de qué éramos ni qué queríamos ser», reflexiona al inicio del curso Tanja Lucic ́, profesora croata exiliada de la antigua Yugoslavia La mayoría de sus alumnos de lengua y literatura serbocroata e

3.

La mano de la buena fortuna by Goran Petrović ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
Description:
La mano de la buena fortuna es ya un libro de culto. Miles de lectores se han sumergido en él buscando ese maravilloso concepto inventado por el autor: el de la lectura total. Son pocos los elegidos que lo logran. Los que lo hacen, se percatarán de que al interior de las páginas uno puede encontrarse con las personas que están leyendo el mismo libro en ese preciso instante.

4.
Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda

Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda by Milica Vučković EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
Description:
"Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda - roman apsolutne iskrenosti. Eva je snažna, nezavisna žena. Eva je žena koja voli. Eva je žena koja počinje da sumnja u sebe. Eva je žena koja razume i nalazi opravdanja. Eva je žena koja ćuti i krije modrice. A drugi ništa ne primećuju ili okreću glavu. Smrtni ishod atletskih povreda je snažna, iskrena, poetična, ali nikako i patetična knjiga koja rasvetljava kompleksne sisteme manipulacije i njihovu suptilnost. Milica Vučković svoju junakinju potpuno degradira i ogoljava patrijarhalne obrasce u kojima su žene naučene da trpe i veruju da to što im se događa ni... continue

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Terrorist : Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin who Ignited World War I by Henrik Rehr EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
"Fictional account of the life of the young Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princep, who touched off World War I in 1914 by assassinating the Archduke Franz Ferdinand"--

6.

The Apology and the Last Days : A Novel by Borislav Pekic EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Montenegro flag Montenegro
Description:
Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard d... continue

7.

The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Switzerland flag Switzerland
Description:
Travel writing, reflects convincingly on the meaning of the experience.

8.

Yugoslavia, mi tierra by Goran Vojnovic ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Slovenia flag Slovenia
Description:
When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People's Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret which recollects the events of 1991. Seventeen years later, Vladan's discovery that he is the son of a fugitive war criminal sends him off on a journey around the Balkans to find his elusive father. The story of the Borojevic family strings and juxtaposes images of the Balkans past and present, but mainly deals with the tragic fates of people who managed to avoid the bombs,... continue