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Name: Bosnian Chronicle

Author: Ivo Andric
Year: 1945
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Fiction, Historical fiction

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ISBNs:
9781559702362
9781628724189
1559702362
1628724188

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 era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its portray of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless 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 so much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.

This book is part of the "Bosnian Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Bridge on the Drina"
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"The Woman from Sarajevo"
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