The Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andrić
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
Tag: balkans
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
phenomenal pop-post-modernist novel straight outta bosnia
Hansen’s Children by Ognjen Spahić
leprosy fiction from the balkans
#TotNTV: Travelling the Balkans
Come explore the Balkans with sound and visuals!!!
#TotNTV: Translating the Balkans
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
#TotNTV: Susan Curtis-Kojakovic & Publishing The Balkans
I chat to Susan Curtis-Kojakovic, the women behind Istros Books, an independent publisher specialising in works from the Balkans.
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
The Son by Andrej Nikolaidis
More contemporary Balkan writings and my opinions on criminalisation of narcotics
