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NIN Award
Death and the Dervish
Set in Sarajevo in the late 19th century, the novel tells the story of a dervish named Sheikh Nuruddin who is deeply devoted to his spiritual practices and beliefs. But when his younger brother is arrested and sentenced to death…
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma: War as the Machine That Uses Everyone
A woman buys a notebook to keep a diary, and that fragile thing outlives nearly everyone it touches. In The Use of Man, Aleksandar Tišma turns the Second World War into a machine whose true horror is not death but use, the slow conversion of people into instruments. This is the great Novi Sad novel of survival, and of the wounds that survival cannot heal.