Bosnian Chronicle - Ivo Andri, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)

Ivo Andri, Celia Hawkesworth (Translator)

Category: General Fiction

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults, Literature

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 Andrics 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., 2015 Ivo Andric (P)2014 Audible Inc., Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins Release date: 22-12-14