The Fortress

by Meša Selimović

Book Overview

The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Published as Tvrđava in Serbian, it is the tenth and among the best-known novels by Mesa Selimovic (1910-1982). In the novel, Ahmet Shabo returns home to seventeenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810117134
• ISBN13: 9780810117136
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"