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,Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader; Sehic literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal,naturalistic,honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed,they rob corpses and homes,they get drunk and get into fights,they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier. There's drugs and alcohol in abundance,and they are-paradoxically-reason's last line of defense.
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Publisher: Istros BooksISBN: 9781912545025Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Sehic has composed a humbling meditation on an existential conundrum that is central to collective and private trauma,but also to more ordinary human experience: how to keep the inner self whole in a world that will assault it in unimaginable ways.'Kapka Kassaova,The Guardian (on Quiet Flows the Una); "When I discovered Faruk Sehic,I didn't just see war in his work,I saw life in that war." Nikola Madzirov,poet; "It's been a long while since Bosnian literature has seen such an interesting and fine writer such as Faruk Sehic."Enver Kazaz,editor and critic
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