Blogs in October 2023

Death and the Dervish 19th October 2023

Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over...

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Tito’s Lost Children: Bosnia and Herzegovina 15th April 2023

No 3 in Tito’s Lost Children Maršal Jovana Avramovska, the next leader of Yugoslavia, awakens from near-death to find Sarajevo under siege by Serb artillery. She and her team must keep her continued existence a secret while her adoptive...

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Black Butterflies 7th March 2023

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents – whether Muslim, Croat or Serb – push the makeshift barriers aside.   When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and...

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Body Kintsugi 16th October 2022

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, thereby highlighting and celebrating the object’s past. In this powerful and personal novel, Senka Maric uses kintsugi as a lens through which to interrogate ideas of illness...

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Thorns 3rd August 2022

Passion and evil played out in Bosnia and rural England. Hustled aboard a military aircraft out of the horrific Bosnian conflict, newsman James Lambert struggles to come to terms with the trauma of the Sarajevo siege and the death...

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