Bosnian Chronicle
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2014
Summary
A timeless saga of intrigue and conquest in the heart of Bosnia by that country’s greatest writer, the Nobel prize-winning author of The Bridge Over the Drina, Ivo Andric.
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 time is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, is Tolstoyan. Inevitably, in its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loya…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846559105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846559103 |
| Author: | Ivo Andric, Celia Hawkesworth, Bogdan Rakic |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Ivo Andric
Ivo Andrić was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Višegrad, the town on the banks of the Drina where his book is set. Until 1941 he served as a Yugoslav diplomat, then, placed under house arrest in Belgrade by the occupying Germans, Andrić turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1975.
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