Hourglass more books like this

by Danilo Kis

The author focuses on an unimportant man, known only as "ES". As the novel opens this 53-year-old minor functionary in the Hungarian State Railways is attempting to find out why his pension is being reduced. From here, the story moves to the Holocaust and the extermination of European Jews.

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Holograms of fear more books like this

by Slavenka Drakuli

Tells the story of a young woman who has to face the experience of a kidney transplant operation after years of dialysis. From the author of "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed".

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Landscape painted with tea more books like this

by Milorad Pavi

The successor to "Dictionary of the Khazars", this book is designed for puzzle fans who can work out their own solution - with a narrative plot to follow. Much of the book is set on Mount Athro and concerns the search by the main character for his father who disappeared during World War II.

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The bridge over the Drina more books like this

by Ivo Andri

Presents the reader with a portrait of the birth and death of Ottoman civilization and chronicles with compassion the misfortunes of Western Christians, Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews, unable to reconcile their vastly disparate loyalties.

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Bosnian chronicle : or the days of the Consuls more books like this

by Ivo Andri

Set in the Napoleonic era in the town of Travnik, the book presents the power struggles within the region.

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Migrations. Vol.1 more books like this

by Milos Tsernianski

Two brothers have left their native Serbia to escape the domination of the Ottoman Turks. Cold-shouldered in the Austrian dominions of Empress Maria Teresa, their goal is to settle among the Slav peoples of Russia. This book won the French Best Foreign Book Award.

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Fording the stream of consciousness more books like this

by Dubravka Ugresi

Winner of three major prizes for the best Yugoslav novel of 1988, this is a humourous yet sympathetic comment on the limitations and absurdities of the literate profession. The author also wrote a collection of short novels and stories "In the Jaws of Life".

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In the jaws of life more books like this

by Dubravka Ugresi

The short novel from which this volume takes its name explores the issue of "women's writing" through the character of Steffie Speck, a typist from a lonely hearts column, whose life is shaped entirely by cliche. Several other short prose works are included in this volume.

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Crown witness against Hebrang more books like this

by Ivan Supek

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