My Rivers

Faruk Sehic author SD Curtis translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Istros Books

Published:4th Sep '23

£12.99

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From the author of the EU Prize for Literature winner, 'Quiet Flows the Una' and 'Under Pressure'.

'My Rivers' is poetic event in four cycles from Bosnia's star author. Divided into 4 sections: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River, Sehic once again takes on themes of war and peace, love and loneliness in his distinctive, penetrating voice.'My Rivers' is an event in four cycles: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the River. The book includes different poetic forms, from long narrative poems to free verse/flash fiction. The style is never overly strict in form, as Sehic always wants this work to be as clear and understandable as possible. It deals with themes of post-war reality and the culture of remembrance in a wider context, along with the tragedy of the Bosnian war seen through larger conflicts and the greater tragedies of the two world wars. The book seeks catharsis, to the extent to which it is possible in a post-conflict society like Bosnia, along with universal themes of intimacy, love, freedom.

'Sehic's fine eye for detail serves to aestheticize atrocity without ever fetishizing it . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breath-taking" LA Review of Books; "Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, Sehic has composed a humbling meditation on an existential conundrum that is central to collective and private trauma, but also to more ordinary human experience: how to keep the inner self whole in a world that will assault it in unimaginable ways." Kapka Kassabova, The Guardian

ISBN: 9781912545353

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80 pages