Books set in Bosnia and Herzegovina (19)


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The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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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Un puente sobre el Drina by Ivo Andrić ES

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Un puente sobre el Drina (1945) es una novela de largo aliento, que transcurre en la localidad de Visegrad, frente al río Drina, desde el siglo XVI, cuando dentro del Imperio Otomano se inició la construcción del puente, atravesando diversas generaciones en la conviven cristianos, musulmanes y judíos sefaradíes, hasta llegar al fatídico 1914. La perspectiva histórica permite diferenciar las pasiones efímeras y la constante del género humano, en especial los que en cada generación contribuyen a su bienestar. Una obra de gran ... continue

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Un puente sobre el Drina

Un puente sobre el Drina by Ivo Andrić ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
La ciudad de Visegrad (Bosnia), situada a orillas del río Drina, tuvo un momento de esplendor en la Edad Media por construir un puente de tránsito entre el mundo cristiano y el islámico. Esta novela recoge la historia de esa comunidad plural y conflictiva, tomando como pretexto narrativo el gran puente de piedra que cruza el río, lugar de encuentro y paseo para sus habitantes. La larga crónica abarca desde el siglo XVI hasta principios del XX, y nos da cuenta de las tensiones y enfrentamientos que se suceden y heredan de generación en generación... continue

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Volga, Volga by Miljenko Jergovic ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Dzelal Pljevlak es el hombre más solitario del mundo. Todos los viernes, con su auto Volga recorre el camino desde su lugar de trabajo en Split (Croacia) hasta Livno (Bosnia), para rezar en la mezquita en búsqueda de una Fe que lo salve de una vida de dolor, y le brinde sentido a su destino. Ha tenido un amigo; tal vez el camino le presente alguno más. Tal vez en su destino pueda compensar en parte todo lo que perdió, algo que lo redima, aunque sea a través del sacrificio. Una muy buena novela que recorre, como un trasfondo, la historia de Yugoslavia entre 19... continue

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Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić EN

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In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Saša Stanišic’s Where You Come From is a novel about this family, whose world is uprooted and remade by war: their history, their life before the conflict, and the years that followed their escape as they created a new life in a new country. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Where You Come From is set in a village where only thirteen people remain, in lost and made-up memori... continue

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Yo Sigo Contando Los Días by Georgi Bardarov ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Bulgaria flag Bulgaria
Description:
This novel is based on a true story, the love between a Christian man and a Muslim woman in the midst of the horror of the Bosnian war and the longest blockade in the history of humanity of a city: that of Sarajevo ́s. The two protagonists, Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, are known as the "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo". The novel recounts the last hours of their attempt to escape from besieged Sarajevo, on May 19, 1993, while in this context a retrospective is made, both of their relationship, and of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the senselessness of the war.

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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

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Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
In a voice both innocent and wise, touchingly reminiscent of Anne Frank's, Zlata Filipovic's diary has awoken the conscience of the world. Now thirteen years old, Zlata began her diary just before her eleventh birthday, when there was peace in Sarajevo and her life was that of a bright, intelligent, carefree young girl. Her early entries describe her friends, her new skis, her family, her grades at school, her interest in joining the Madonna Fan Club. And then, on television, she sees the bombs falling on Dubrovnik. Though repelled by the sight, Zlata cannot conceive of the same thing happenin... continue