Miljenko Jergović

Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable d but collection of stories. A dazzling storyteller, this native of Sarajevo brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats and Serbs with a subterranean humor and profoundly personal vision to his work. Their offbeat lives and daily dramas (straying into the likes and dislikes of a cactus, the history of locally blended cigarettes) are set against the deadly background of the Balkans war.

Sarajevo Marlboro

An epic novel of twentieth-century Balkan life, from the decline of the Ottoman Empire through the bloodshed of the Bosnian War This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tackling universal themes on a human scale, master storyteller Miljenko Jergovic traces one Yugoslavian family's tale as history irresistibly casts the fates of five generations. What is it to live a life whose circumstances are driven by history? Jergovic investigates the experiences of a compelling heroine, Regina Delavale, and her many family members and neighbors. Telling Regina's story in reverse chronology, the author proceeds from her final days in 2002 to her birth in 1905, encountering along the way such traumas as atrocities committed by Nazi Ustashe Croats and the death of Tito. Lyrically written and unhesitatingly told, The Walnut Mansion may be read as an allegory of the tragedy of Yugoslavia's tormented twentieth century.

The Walnut Mansion

Nezemaljski izraz njegovih ruku

Levijeva tkaonica svile

Kortroman om Jozo Taraš, der efter sit livs forlis i USA vender tilbage til Dubrovnik for at blive munk, men møder pigen Maria, som er halvt så gammel som ham

Roman o Korini

Пси на озері

drama

Kažeš anđeo

Ruta Tannebaum

Hauzmajstor Šulc

Gloria in excelsis

Roman om en familie gennem generationer, hvis liv påvirkes af de historiske omstændigheder i Bosnien Hercegovina, Kroatien og Montenegro

Dvori od oraha

Inšallah Madona, inšallah

Vater

U već mitskome književnome mjestu, na sarajevskom Sepetarevcu, u stanu svoga odrastanja, u kojemu mu je umrla majka, u koji se slila većina ostavštine Stublerovih i Rejcovih, autor prebire po dokumentima, po knjigama, po materijalnim i nematerijalnim ostacima, po povijesti jedne kuferaške obitelji. Predmeti i dokumenti, novčanik, partijska knjižica, češagija, djedovi pokušaji autobiografije i još mnogo toga pripovijedaju priču ne samo jedne obitelji već i jednoga grada, djetinjstva i odrastanja u kojoj autor ne štedi nikoga, a ponajmanje sebe i svoje bližnje.

Miljenko Jergović

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