
My Heart
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Autobiographical fiction connects a heart attack, his wife’s illness and the family’s displacement after the Bosnian war.
Original title: Me’med, crvena bandana i pahuljica
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Mehmedinović carries the experience of the Bosnian war into an emigrant family’s daily life. This is an entry through bodily memory, tenderness and fragile intimate relationships. Andrić’s The Bridge on the Drina follows communities across centuries, while Selimović explores individual morality under power. Both also belong to wider, shared Yugoslav traditions. Šehić revisits war trauma, Avdić its nightmarish echoes, and English-language Hemon the experience of exile.
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Autobiographical fiction connects a heart attack, his wife’s illness and the family’s displacement after the Bosnian war.
Original title: Me’med, crvena bandana i pahuljica

The bridge at Višegrad anchors a centuries-long account of Bosnia’s inhabitants and changing empires.
Original title: Na Drini ćuprija

His brother’s arrest confronts a dervish with the conflict between faith, loyalty and arbitrary power.
Original title: Derviš i smrt

A Bosnian emigrant investigates a Jewish immigrant’s death in Chicago and travels across eastern Europe.

Memories of a river and childhood help the narrator confront the trauma of the Bosnian war.
Original title: Knjiga o Uni

A search for a missing friend leads through a nightmarish landscape of memory and postwar Bosnia.
Original title: Sedam strahova
Brief prose pieces and poems record besieged Sarajevo, preserving the details of individual lives against wartime anonymity.

Jozef Pronek, a Sarajevan in Chicago, navigates immigrant life while war overtakes his homeland.
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