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.

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Paperback, 20th Edition

ISBN13: 9780810117136

Northwestern University Press, 1999

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