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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.33 — 26,797 ratings — published 1945
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,597 ratings — published 1966
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,329 ratings — published 1994
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,871 ratings — published 1954
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,897 ratings — published 1983
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.32 — 32,341 ratings — published 2021
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,830 ratings — published 1945
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,621 ratings — published 1970
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,784 ratings — published 1976
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,110 ratings — published 1993
Herkunft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,630 ratings — published 2019
The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,014 ratings — published 1983
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,816 ratings — published 2004
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,429 ratings — published 1999
Catch the Rabbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,886 ratings — published 2018
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,549 ratings — published 2003
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,787 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,064 ratings — published 2000
Gospođica (Bosnian Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,762 ratings — published 1945
Kissani Jugoslavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,110 ratings — published 2014
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,871 ratings — published 1991
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,643 ratings — published 1996
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.42 — 103,630 ratings — published 2011
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,451 ratings — published 2008
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.07 — 602 ratings — published 1997
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (Myths)
by (shelved 16 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,023 ratings — published 2007
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,943 ratings — published 2015
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,380 ratings — published 1978
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.11 — 865 ratings — published 1994
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,155 ratings — published 1981
Физика на тъгата (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,521 ratings — published 2011
On the Edge of Reason (Revived Modern Classic)
by (shelved 14 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,963 ratings — published 1938
Time Shelter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,475 ratings — published 2020
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,999 ratings — published 2006
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,812 ratings — published 1963
Nečista krv (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,324 ratings — published 1910
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,254 ratings — published 1996
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,297 ratings — published 1998
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,508 ratings — published 1992
Le transizioni (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,839 ratings — published 2016
The Book of My Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,599 ratings — published 2013
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,002 ratings — published 2000
Gorski vijenac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,718 ratings — published 1847
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,834 ratings — published 1996
Rani jadi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,485 ratings — published 1970
Garden, Ashes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,844 ratings — published 1965
The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.31 — 435 ratings — published 1994
East of the West: A Country in Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as balkan)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,537 ratings — published 2011
“Yet it is also a tonic and an antidote to dullness to be with the Serbs. They possess the irresponsible gaiety that we traditionally connect with the Irish, with whom they have often been compared. Other less convenient sides of the Irish character are also typical in the Serbs, such as a cheerful contempt for punctuality in daily life and a ready willingness, arising clearly from politeness and good nature, to make promises that are not always fulfilled. But perhaps the most pronounced of these similarities is to be found in the songs of Serbia and Ireland. With both peoples the historic songs about the past are songs of sorrow, or noble struggles against overwhelming odds, of failure redeemed by unconquerable resolve. There is nothing strange in this combination of laughing gaiety and profound melancholy. It is often only those who are truly capable of the one emotion who also have the faculty for the other.”
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“Jer, ako ima boga, on je samo jedan.
I ne treba ti mač i crkva da mu budeš odan.
On od tebe jednostavno želi da budeš dobar,
a ne da plaćaš popa i da se šlihtaš do groba.
Ako sve ovo ikad kažeš, izdajnik si roda.
Jer ovde si to: vera, nacija i boja.
Ljudi umiru zbog toga, zbog slučajne lutrije,
a da su izvučeni drugde, sve bi bilo drukčije:
voleli bi ono sto sad mrze jednakim žarom,
i opet bi im bilo vredno da to plate glavom. (Pismo vanzemaljcu)”
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I ne treba ti mač i crkva da mu budeš odan.
On od tebe jednostavno želi da budeš dobar,
a ne da plaćaš popa i da se šlihtaš do groba.
Ako sve ovo ikad kažeš, izdajnik si roda.
Jer ovde si to: vera, nacija i boja.
Ljudi umiru zbog toga, zbog slučajne lutrije,
a da su izvučeni drugde, sve bi bilo drukčije:
voleli bi ono sto sad mrze jednakim žarom,
i opet bi im bilo vredno da to plate glavom. (Pismo vanzemaljcu)”
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