Books from Bosnia and Herzegovina
55 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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Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
New Year's Eve. The last day of the last year of human existence. A high-ranking minister criss-crosses the city with blood on his hands, a dying necrophile attempts to go clean before God, and a traumatised nurse is pressured into keeping a powerful secret. With undisguised glee, a nameless narrator unravels these twisted tales of moral turmoil, all of which are brought to an abrupt close by a cataclysmic collision of time and space. What will remain on New Year's Day? In a cabin in the Alps, the last people on earth - a musicologist and her young daughter - search for a five-hundre... 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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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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Black Butterflies : A novel by Priscilla Morris EN
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR • SHORT-LISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s—a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art. “A reflective novel . . . that tells us life goes on, love stories develop, humanity remains in the most inhumane of times.” —Irish Independent Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclave... 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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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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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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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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