Description
With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Sehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Faruk Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader.
Author: Faruk Sehic
Publisher: Istros Books
Published: 06/14/2019
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781912545025
ISBN10: 1912545020
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
About the Author
Literary critics have hailed Faruk Sehic as the leader of the "mangled generation" of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. Under Pressure was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel Quiet Flows the Una received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist. Mirza Puric is a literary translator working from German and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian. He is a contributing editor of EuropeNow and in-house translator for the Sarajevo Writers' Workshop. From 2014 to 2017 he was an editor-at-large for Asymptote.
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