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Zusatztext Muharem Bazdulj marvellously combines facts with imagination, history and romance…The author’s style has something of the subtle lyricism and chronicle-like tranquility of his countryman Ivo Andric, but also a touch of the oriental baroque richness associated with Orhan Pamuk.–European Literature Network Informationen zum Autor Muharem Bazdulj (1977) is one of the leading writers to emerge from the Balkans after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. His essays and short stories have appeared in twenty languages. Two of his previous books were published in English: The Second Book (2005) and Byron and the Beauty (2016). Upon original publication, The Second Book won a leading literary prize for best book of short stories in Bosnia. Byron and the Beauty was selected by Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times as one of the forty best books published in English in 2016. His work was featured in the anthologies Best European Fiction 2012 and The Wall in My Head . Bazdulj is also a winner of three of the most prestigious journalistic awards in Bosnia and Serbia. After fifteen years in Sarajevo, he is currently living in Belgrade. Klappentext "Originally published in Bosnian by Ajfelov Most as Tranzit, kometa, pomraécenje in 2007"--Copyright page. Zusammenfassung In these subtly linked novellas, Muharem Bazdulj takes the reader across several centuries of Yugoslav history, finding in three very different sets of circumstances a common longing to escape the desperation and depression of life in the east.
