A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I, "The Bridge on the Drina" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable[...]

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. This title chronicles the lives of Catholics, Moselms and Orthodox Christians that unable to reconcile their [...]

Vid urvalet av novellerna har hänsyn tagits till vad som föreligger i tidigare bokutgåvor, i Vesirens elefant (1961), Männen från Veletovo (1962) och Jelena och andra berättelser (1966). I reviderat skick nar två noveller ur den förstnämnda samlingen dock tagits med i nu presenterade urval,[...]