With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, Bosnian writer Faruk Šehić secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Sehic has combines beauty and horror in a prose voice which cannot help but seduce.

Winner of the Zoro Verlag Prize, 2004

"It’s a long time since I’ve been as excited by such original writing. (...) Šehić himself avoids metaphor and hyperbole in his writing, but that doesn’t stop me praising him as ‘the Bosnian Hemingway’."

Rosie Goldsmith European Literature Network