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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 26,951 ratings — published 1945
Balkan Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,125 ratings — published 1993
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.42 — 103,785 ratings — published 2011
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,442 ratings — published 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,800 ratings — published 1941
The Balkans: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,079 ratings — published 2000
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,754 ratings — published 2008
The Fall of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,513 ratings — published 1992
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,075 ratings — published 2015
Imagining the Balkans (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.07 — 606 ratings — published 1997
Death and the Dervish (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.50 — 11,631 ratings — published 1966
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.32 — 33,112 ratings — published 2021
Broken April (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,471 ratings — published 1978
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,855 ratings — published 1996
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,564 ratings — published 2003
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,662 ratings — published 1996
The Ministry of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,840 ratings — published 2004
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,800 ratings — published 1976
Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,845 ratings — published 1945
Sarajevo Marlboro (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,382 ratings — published 1994
Café Europa: Life After Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,261 ratings — published 1996
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.12 — 422 ratings — published 1994
Bosnia: A Short History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.11 — 869 ratings — published 1994
Dictionary of the Khazars (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,920 ratings — published 1983
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 35 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.82 — 348 ratings — published 1997
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,018 ratings — published 2000
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,690 ratings — published 2008
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.01 — 609 ratings — published 1996
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,498 ratings — published 2017
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,547 ratings — published 2014
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,448 ratings — published 2002
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,897 ratings — published 1991
Kosovo: A Short History – An Essential Chronicle of the Balkans, Ethnic Tensions, and Political Independence (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.07 — 481 ratings — published 1998
My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,411 ratings — published 1999
Prokleta avlija (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,913 ratings — published 1954
Chronicle in Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,114 ratings — published 1971
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.10 — 945 ratings — published 2020
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,730 ratings — published 1993
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,215 ratings — published 1981
Elegy for Kosovo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,308 ratings — published 1998
The General of the Dead Army (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,841 ratings — published 1963
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,777 ratings — published 2000
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,610 ratings — published 2004
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,016 ratings — published 2006
Catch the Rabbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,959 ratings — published 2018
The Balkan Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,103 ratings — published 1960
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,045 ratings — published 2000
Bolla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,009 ratings — published 2019
Błoto słodsze niż miód. Głosy komunistycznej Albanii (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as balkans)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,394 ratings — published 2018
“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
“Izbjegavam one ekipe s Balkana koje se u inozemstvu okupljaju po nacionalnoj osnovi; oni prije nego što uđu u crkvu ostave u predvorju pištolje i noževe, koje nakon mise ponovno zataknu za pojas, tako ih nekako u bijelom svijetu doživljavam.”
― Sjajno mjesto za nesreću
― Sjajno mjesto za nesreću
