Under Pressure

By: Faruk Å ehiÄ?

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Paperback | 14 June 2019

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180 Pages

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19.84 x 12.85 x 1.04

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With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Šehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader; Šehic literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal, naturalistic, honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed, they rob corpses and homes, they get drunk and get into fights, they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier. There&;s drugs and alcohol in abundance, and they are&;paradoxically&;reason&;s last line of defense.

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"SÌehicÌ literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal, naturalistic, honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed, they rob corpses and homes, they get drunk and get into fights, they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier... There’s drugs and alcohol in abundance, and they are – paradoxically – reason’s last line of defence. But more importantly, SÌehicÌ does not use that paradox to describe his characters, but rather the times they live in. Alcohol and drugs are the means of escape into a better, parallel reality, to escape into an illusion of life." JOSIP MLAKICÌ

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