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Books set in Serbia:


The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš
Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavić
Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš
Götz and Meyer by David Albahari
Hidden Camera by Zoran Živković
Leeches by David Albahari
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by Åsne Seierstad
Time Gifts by Zoran Živković
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia And Croatia in the 1990s by V.P. Gagnon Jr
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tisma
The Book of Revenge by Dragan Todorovic
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
The Balkan Express by Slavenka Drakulić
The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara
Impossible Stories by Zoran Živković
Milosevic: A Biography by Adam LeBor
This Is Serbia Calling by Matthew Collin
Diary of Interrupted Days by Dragan Todorovic
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Second Edition by Tim Judah
The Inner Side of the Wind, or The Novel of Hero and Leander by Milorad Pavić
Secret Sanction by Brian Haig
Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl by Michele Zackheim
Chinese Letter by Svetislav Basara
A Pebble in My Shoe by Katherine Hoeger Flotz
The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade by Jasmina Tesanovic
Regards From Serbia by Aleksandar Zograf
Pictures from Serbia : My Gypsy Neighbors by Rajko Igic
Serbian Fairy Tales by Elodie Muatovich
Bad Blood by Borisav Stanković
The Deceased: A Comedy with a Prelude and Three Acts by Branislav Nušić
Sky-Locked Atlas by Goran Petrović

The Tragic Fate of Moritz Tot by Dana Todorovic

Dinner with Fish and Mirrors by Ivana Milankov

Serbian Fantastic Prose by Branko Mikasinovich

My Family's Role in the World Revolution: and Other Prose by Bora Ćosić

The Prose Fiction Of Danilo Kiš, Serbian Jewish Writer: Childhood And The Holocaust by Ivana Vuletić

The Order of the Dragon by Aleksandar Tesic (fantasy).

Fragile Travelers by Jovanka Živanović

The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto

byMore books set in Serbia:


Anthology of Serbian Poetry: The Golden Age by Mihailo Dordević
The Apology and the Last Days: A Novel by Bojan Mišić
Assembly by Novica Tadić
An Atlas Traced by the Sky by Goran Petrović
The Attic by Danilo Kiš
Bait by David Albahari
Baltimore by Jelena Lengold
Bernardi's Room by Slobodan Tišma
Black hand over Europe by Henri Pozzi
Blackbirds' Field: A True Story of the First World War by Victor Komski
The Book of Blam by Aleksandar Tišma
The Box by Slavoljub Stanković
Brat by David Albahari
The Bridge by Zoran Živković
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir by Vesna Goldsworthy
Cloud Clad Angel by Vera Srbinovic
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa by Vasko Popa
Compartments by Zoran Živković
Constantine's Crossing by Dejan Stojiljković
Counter Camouflage by Bojan Miladinovic
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail
Dark Things by Novica Tadić
The Delivery Room by Sylvia Brownrigg
Early Sorrows: For Children and Sensitive Readers by Danilo Kiš
Escher's Loops by Zoran Živković
Fairground Magician by Jelena Lengold
Fathers and Forefathers by Slobodan Selenić
Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
The Ghostwriter by Zoran Živković
Golden Apple by Vasko Popa
A Guide to the Serbian Mentality by Momo Kapor
Hamam Balkania by Vladislav Bajac
Hitler à Chicago by David Albahari
Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems by Vasko Popa
Homo Poeticus: Essays and Interviews by Danilo Kiš
Horse Has Six Legs: Contemporary Serbian Poetry by Charles Simic
Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš
The Houses of Belgrade by Borislav Pekić
How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić

Attila: The Gathering Of The Storm
(Attila Trilogy #2)
by William Napier
Novak Djoković biography by Benjamin Southerland
Serbian Trilogy - by Stevan Jakovljević
but also
Serbian Epic Poems gathered by Wolf Karadžić, something like Kalevala, Beowulf, Song of Hildenbrand
Happy reading

Hi! Can anyone recommend Historical Fiction taking place in Serbia. I need two books that take place in different time periods and they can be in Serbian, just not in Cyrillic since I haven't learned it yet. Thank you in advance! :)

Samanta wrote: "Hi! Can anyone recommend Historical Fiction taking place in Serbia. I need two books that take place in different time periods and they can be in Serbian, just not in Cyrillic..."

I would suggest several and, if you understand Serbian, then the original would be preferred to any translation. All of these are classics and are available in various editions, both in Roman/Latin and Cyrillic:

Seobe by Miloš Crnjanski
also in English: Migrations
It takes place in the 18th century in the north of Serbia. I would make the exception here about translations and would highly recommend Michael Henry Heim who was a brilliant translator from several languages and fortunately also translated this important novel.

Kad su cvetale tikve by Dragoslav Mihailović
It's one of my favorite novels in Serbian, regrettably not yet translated into English. It takes place in the early post-World War II communist period. It's a powerful testament to the overwhelming trials that an everyday person had to go through in this era.

Nečista krv by Borisav Stanković
19th century in southern Serbia. It wasn't written as a historical fiction because Stankovic was born in 1876 but it reflects the spirit of the time in the provinces of southern Serbia.

The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma
World War II and its aftermath in Novi Sad (northern Serbia) and Belgrade

Since Ivo Andrić is probably the best known author from the former Yugoslavia, his Gospodjica takes place partly in Belgrade (also in Sarajevo in Bosnia) in the early 19th century.

Hope this helps!

Hvala! :)

Slobodan Selenić "Ubistvo s predumišljajem/Premedited Murder", povezuje dva novija ist. perioda
Aleksandar Gatalica "Veliki rat"

Hvala

Dear fellow readers and travellers,

Recently published as a Kindle and now picked up by a publisher for release as a print version - but the Kindle is here now, is inexpensive and has links to a huge range of music and video from Serbia and ex-Yugoslavia.

Hvala! B

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How did a song recorded in 1981 by a young multi-racial punk rock band from a ‘stagnating provincial English city’ and released on a tiny independent record label become famous in a Yugoslavia formed in the image of Marshall Tito? Why did it take 30 years before the members of the band found out? How was it that this ‘communist’ country had one of the most vibrant punk-rock scenes in the world? Who were ’Tito’s punks’ and who are they now?

More than three decades later, the author sets out from his home in the Netherlands to follow the journey of the song, through a time and a country that no longer exists. On the way he encounters borders and Brutalism, discovers the world’s first fascist micro-state, sees the legacy of the NATO bombings, the impact of ‘turbo-capitalism’ and the ever-present ghosts of genocides and the Holocaust. But unexpectedly also, the Yugoslavs’ love of British TV sitcoms and Northern Ireland punk, tales of Nirvana and REM, Van Gogh and Vermeer, pirates and Black Wave movies, the Yugoslav story behind the Sound of Music, the embracing warmth of Balkan hospitality and a dizzying stream of rakija.

What emerges is a lesser told, unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk and punk rockers. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. Rather, it is a mural of that journey.

“We went to sleep in Disneyland, and we woke up in the apocalypse.”

“The socialism was not the problem, the parents were the problem.”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Dogs and Others

Cardboard City by Katarina Jovanovic.

Avala Is Falling