Books set in Bosnia and Herzegovina (26)
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21.
Vang de haas by Lana Bastas̆ic̓ NL
CroatiaDescription:
Een dynamisch en ontroerend verhaal over vriendschap, volwassen worden en de invloed van de Balkanoorlog in de jaren negentig op een hele generatie
Twaalf jaar nadat ze elkaar voor het laatst hebben gezien, krijgt Sara een telefoontje van Lejla, haar beste vriendin van vroeger. Sara woont al jarenlang in Dublin terwijl Lejla in hun moederland Bosnië is gebleven. Lejla vraagt haar naar Mostar te komen om samen op zoek te gaan naar Armin, Lejla’s broer die lang geleden vermist is geraakt.
Sara twijfelt of ze wel moet gaan, ze noemt Dublin nu eindelijk haar thuis en ze voelt er w... continue
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Volga, Volga by Miljenko Jergovic ES
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
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
BulgariaDescription:
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
SloveniaDescription:
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
Country: Europe / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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