Bosnian Chronicle

Ivo Andric, Celia Hawkesworth, Bogdan Rakic

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English

The Harvill Press
13 October 2014

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

By: Ivo Andric
Translated by: Celia Hawkesworth, Bogdan Rakic
Imprint: The Harvill Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781846559105
ISBN 10: 1846559103
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 13 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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Ivo Andric, Celia Hawkesworth, Bogdan Rakic

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