Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan

by Ivo Andrić

Book Overview

A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul.

Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan's armies, and as the book begins he arrives from Istanbul, dispatched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681372525
• ISBN13: 9781681372525
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"