The Fortress
by Mesa Selimovic
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A novel on 18th century Sarajevo under Ottoman rule, featuring a soldier returned from the wars. A Muslim, he marries a Christian girl who supports him while he dabbles in politics, eventually leading a raid to rescue a friend from jail.Tags
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26+ Works 871 Members
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- Canonical title
- The Fortress
- Original title
- Tvrđava
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Ahmet Shabo
- Important places
- Sarajevo
- Dedication
- To Maša and Jesenka
- Original language
- Bosnian
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.82354 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Serbo-Croatian Fiction 1900–1991 Late 20th century 1945–1991
- LCC
- PG1419.29 .E43 .T913 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Serbo-Croatian
- BISAC
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- 163
- Popularity
- 200,249
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- (4.45)
- Languages
- 10 — Bosnian, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 21
- ASINs
- 3
