Bosnian Chronicle - Ivo Andrić, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century Classics Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Ivo Andric Literary Fiction Literature Nobel Prize Novels Serbian Literature

Written by Ivo Andrić, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)
Read by Helen Lloyd
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing: expansive and courtly face-to-face, brooding and scheming behind closed doors. As they have for centuries, the Bosnians themselves observe and endure the machinations of greater powers that vie, futilely, to absorb them. Ivo Andric’s masterwork is imbued with the richness and complexity of a region that has brought so much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.

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Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 22-12-14