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My Rivers Faruk Sehic

My Rivers By Faruk Sehic

My Rivers by Faruk Sehic


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Summary

'My Rivers' is poetic event in four cycles from Bosnia's star author. Divided into 4 sections: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River, Sehic once again takes on themes of war and peace, love and loneliness in his distinctive, penetrating voice.

My Rivers Summary

My Rivers by Faruk Sehic

'My Rivers' is an event in four cycles: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River. The book includes different poetic forms, from long narrative poems to free verse/flash fiction. The style is never overly strict in form, as Sehic always wants this work to be as clear and understandable as possible. It deals with themes of post-war reality and the culture of remembrance in a wider context, along with the tragedy of the Bosnian war seen through larger conflicts and the greater tragedies of the two world wars. The book seeks catharsis, to the extent to which it is possible in a post-conflict society like Bosnia, along with universal themes of intimacy, love, freedom.

My Rivers Reviews

'Sehic's fine eye for detail serves to aestheticize atrocity without ever fetishizing it . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breath-taking LA Review of Books; Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, 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 Kassabova, The Guardian

About Faruk Sehic

Faruk Sehic is Bosnia's star writer. At the age of 22 he voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. 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 collection of short stories ' Under Pressure' (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. He has published poetry and the novella 'Greta' (2020). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

Additional information

GOR013761784
9781912545353
1912545357
My Rivers by Faruk Sehic
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Istros Books
2023-09-04
80
N/A
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