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Bosnian Chronicle

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bosnian Chronicle
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ivo Andric
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
Translated by Bogdan Rakic
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 135
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781846559105
ClassificationsDewey:891.8235
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint The Harvill Press
Publication Date 13 October 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 loyalties, the story is eerily relevant to readers today.Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by a ceaseless 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 much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.

Author Biography

Ivo Andric was born in 1892 in Travnik, Bosnia of Croat parents and grew up alongside Orthodox Christians, Moslems and Roman Catholics in Visegrad, 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, Andric turned to writing. In 1961 he was awarded the Noble prize for literature. He died in 1975.