Under Pressure by Faruk Šehić

Under Pressure

Faruk Šehić with Mirza Purić (Translator)

166 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
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Under Pressure by Faruk Šehić is ideal for readers drawn to unflinchingly raw explorations of war's psychological toll, blending poetic prose with stark realism to confront humanity's darkest impulses without sentimentality.

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UNDER PRESSURE is a fragmentary book that brings together brutal and heart-wrenching stories from the frontline of the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. It was this book that secured Faruk Šehić's reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge...

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