The Walnut Mansion

by Miljenko Jergović

Book Overview

An epic novel of twentieth-century Balkan life, from the decline of the Ottoman Empire through the bloodshed of the Bosnian War

This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tackling universal themes on a human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300179278
• ISBN13: 9780300179279
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"