This is the first intoduction in English to the Nobel prize-winning novelist and writer Ivo Andric. The book covers the full range of his work, including verse, essays and reflective prose as well as fiction. Celia Hawkesworth also provides an account of Andric's life, and the cultural history of his native Bosnia.>
The story of the vizier's elephant --
The bridge on the Žepa --
In the guest-house --
Death in Sinan's tekke --
The climbers --
A letter from 1920 --
The house on its own : introduction --
Alipasha --
A story --
The damned yard
This is the first intoduction in English to the Nobel prize-winning novelist and writer Ivo Andric. The book covers the full range of his work, including verse, essays and reflective prose as well as fiction. Celia Hawkesworth also provides an account of Andric's life, and the cultural history of his native Bosnia.>
The story of the vizier's elephant --
The bridge on the Žepa --
In the guest-house --
Death in Sinan's tekke --
The climbers --
A letter from 1920 --
The house on its own : introduction --
Alipasha --
A story --
The damned yard