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Product details
- ISBN 9780810117136
- Weight: 413g
- Dimensions: 126 x 204mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1999
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.
