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Balkans Books
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,788 ratings — published 1945
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,951 ratings — published 1993
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.42 — 102,903 ratings — published 2011
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,723 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,972 ratings — published 2000
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 44,688 ratings — published 2008
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,164 ratings — published 2015
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.07 — 595 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,450 ratings — published 1992
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.51 — 11,306 ratings — published 1966
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,689 ratings — published 1996
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,596 ratings — published 2021
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,825 ratings — published 1978
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,437 ratings — published 2003
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,587 ratings — published 1996
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,643 ratings — published 2004
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,666 ratings — published 1976
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 415 ratings — published 1994
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,748 ratings — published 1945
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,018 ratings — published 1994
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.10 — 821 ratings — published 1994
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,170 ratings — published 1996
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,836 ratings — published 2000
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.81 — 336 ratings — published 1997
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,741 ratings — published 1983
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.04 — 158,281 ratings — published 2008
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 582 ratings — published 1996
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,348 ratings — published 2017
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,503 ratings — published 2014
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,309 ratings — published 2002
Kosovo: A Short History – An Essential Chronicle of the Balkans, Ethnic Tensions, and Political Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 471 ratings — published 1998
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,659 ratings — published 1991
My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,331 ratings — published 1999
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,587 ratings — published 1954
Chronicle in Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,892 ratings — published 1971
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,552 ratings — published 1993
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.09 — 869 ratings — published 2020
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,228 ratings — published 1998
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,522 ratings — published 1963
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,715 ratings — published 1981
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,916 ratings — published 2006
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,764 ratings — published 2000
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,563 ratings — published 2004
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,022 ratings — published 2000
The Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.66 — 6,424 ratings — published 1970
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans – A Journey Into War, Chaos, and Violence in a Beautiful Region on the Brink (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.62 — 488 ratings — published 1999
The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 536 ratings — published 2016
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,563 ratings — published 1996
“Until the war had broken out, there had been some sort of order in the strange and complex mixture of the four disparate peoples crowded into the little valley, all calling themselves Bosnians. They celebrated separate holidays, ate different foods, feasted and fasted on different days, yet all depended on one another, but never admitted it. They had lived amidst an ever present, if dormant, mixture of hatred and love for each other. The Muslims with their Ramadan, the Jews with Passover, the Catholics with Christmas, and the Serbs with their Slavas- each of them tacitly tolerated and recognised the customs and existence of others. With suckling pigs turned on spits in Serbian houses, giving off a mouth-watering fragrance, kosher food would be eaten in Jewish homes, and in Muslim households, meals were cooked in suet. There was a certain harmony in all this, even if there was no actual mixing. The aromas had long ago adjusted to one another and had given the city its distinctive flavor. Everything was "as God willed it." But it was necessary to remove only one piece of that carefully balanced mosaic and that whole picture would fall into its component parts which would then, rejoined in an unthinkable manner, create hostile and incompatible entities. Like a hammer, the war had knocked out one piece, disrupting the equilibrium.”
― Miris kiše na Balkanu
― Miris kiše na Balkanu
“All is one. Don't let me forget this, don't let the bastards divide me again. Our tragedy is fragmentation. It begins as a state of mind and ends up as destiny. It is the tragedy of our family of nations who hobble across this great peninsula, this exquisitely set Earth, like an army of blind soldiers a thousand years old looking for a place to rest. Let them rest. Forgive them, forgive me, forgive us. Our fear drove us insane and melancholy.”
― To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
― To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
