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From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists' siege and was active throughout the war in the city's resistance movement, as one of the editor's of the magazine Phantom of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of 1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka "egzil-abc" series, published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers and…

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Editions

3 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    City Lights Books · 122 pages · 9780872863453
  • Other · Croatian · 1995
    Durieux · 145 pages · 9789531880435
  • Other · Croatian · 1992
    Svjetlost · 58 pages · 9788601031272
HistoryShort storiesNew York Times reviewedEuropean fiction - generalEastern european poetry