num_pages: 437
description: Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its portray of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing: expansive and courtly face-to-face, brooding and scheming behind closed doors. As they have for centuries, the Bosnians themselves observe and endure the machinations of greater powers that vie, futilely, to absorb them. Ivo Andric's masterwork is imbued with the richness and complexity of a region that has brought so much tragedy to our century and known so little peace.
language: English
title: Bosnian Chronicle
titlecomplete: Bosnian Chronicle (Bosnian Trilogy, #2)
characters: Niccolo Rotta, Suleiman Pasha Skopljak, Siliktar Ali Pasha, Josef von Mitterer, Anna Maria von Mitterer, Baki, César d’Avenat, Husref Mehmed Pasha, Ibrahim Halimi Pasha, Madame Daville, Lieutenant Colonel von Paulich, Amédée Chaumette Des Fossés, Jean-Batiste Etienne Daville
genres: Fiction, Historical, Serbian Literature, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2238
places: Bosnia, Travnik, Ottoman Empire, Balkans
series: Bosnian Trilogy
publisher: Arcade Publishing (NY)