The Fortress A Novel |
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| Author:
| Selimovic, Mesa
Goy, Edward Dennis |
| Translator:
| Levinger-Goy, Jasna |
| Series title: | Writings from an Unbound Europe Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1712-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.95 |
Book Description:
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The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.