Under Pressure by Faruk Sehic (English) Paperback Book

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With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Sehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader.

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With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Sehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader; Sehic literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal, naturalistic, honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed, they rob corpses and homes, they get drunk and get into fights, they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier. There's drugs and alcohol in abundance, and they are--paradoxically--reason's last line of defense.

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A collection of visceral and poignant stories solidifying Sehic's reputation as one of the great Bosnian writers. Winner of the Zoro Verlag Prize 2004.

Author Biography

Until the outbreak of war in 1992, Faruk Sehic studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works. Literary critics have hailed Sehic as the leader of the `mangled generation' of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region, and also the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent book is a collection of poetry entitled `My Rivers' (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

Review

'Sehic has composed a humbling meditation on an existential conundrum that is central to collective and private trauma, but also to more ordinary human experience: how to keep the inner self whole in a world that will assault it in unimaginable ways.' Kapka Kassaova, The Guardian (on Quiet Flows the Una); "When I discovered Faruk Sehic, I didn't just see war in his work, I saw life in that war." Nikola Madzirov, poet; "It's been a long while since Bosnian literature has seen such an interesting and fine writer such as Faruk Sehic." Enver Kazaz, editor and critic

Review Quote

"Unmistakably the work of a master poet. His prose is a treasury of allusion, metaphor, and simile describing his participation on the "government side" in the Bosnian conflict between 1990 and 1994. . . . To set the tone for the English-language reader, the translator, Mirza Puric, offers a short introduction entitled "It's Complicated," which provides useful historical background for the story. What follows is a beautifully blended collaboration, nicely captured in Puric's English prose, between the author and the whispering influences of Ernest Hemingway and Ismail Kadare. . . . Puric's disarming English translation is a work of gentle authority that grapples smartly with a wide range of linguistic challenges. . . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breathtaking as Under Pressure is, it remains only a snapshot of this great writer's early work. English-language readers need not fear, however, since what amounts to a follow-up novel, Quietly Flows The Una , was already published by Istros in 2016." -- LA Review of Books

Details ISBN1912545020 Author Faruk Sehic Pages 166 Publisher Istros Books ISBN-10 1912545020 ISBN-13 9781912545025 Format Paperback Media Book Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-05-28 Language English UK Release Date 2019-05-28 Imprint Istros Books Place of Publication Bristol Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2019-05-28 NZ Release Date 2019-05-28 DEWEY 891.8393 Audience General We've got this

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