Writings From An Unbound Europe: Death and the Dervish (Hardcover)

from stillatim

Kafka meets Dostoevsky in Ottoman-era Bosnia; I say this not to diminish the book's originality, because I've never read anything quite like it, but just to give it a tradition. Unfortunately, the second half is nowhere near as interesting or gripping as the first, and the flurry of events sugges...

from palaverofbirds

Bosnian Muslim take on existentialist fiction, but much better than Sartre.

from larryerick

This was a difficult book to read. Not because the author has no skills. Not because the storyline is boring or confusing. At it's best, which is a great deal of the time, the book is lucid, interesting, compelling even, and easily relatable for the reader. Written almost entirely in the first pe...

from richardderus

Rating: 3.5* of five An intense read. Beautiful translated words confronting and comforting the human fear of love by the means of examining the easier-to-grasp fear of death. I've chosen some favorite phrases and liked them from the quotes. They appear below the review. (This describes a wonderf...

from DieFledermaus

This is an undoubtedly great book. It is not an easy read but is very rewarding. The main plot is simple - Sheikh Ahmed Nuruddin, the dervish of the title, deals with the fact that his brother has been unjustly arrested. In the first half, he attempts to learn about the arrest and the reasons beh...