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Bosnian Chronicle

By Ivo Andric

Book information

Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Year
1963
ISBN
978-1-62872-418-9
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1119802 bytes)
Series
Bosnian Trilogy #2
Pages
437\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-08-05 09:10:57
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Description

Joseph Hitrec (translator) Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle (Travnicka hronika) presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its portray 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 themselves observe and endure the machinations of greater powers that vie, futilely, to absorb them. Ivo Andric's masterwork is imbued with the richness and complexity of a region that has brought so much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.

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