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Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810123371
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood written by Robert Elsie and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories representing the last three decades of Albanian writing--especially the burst of creativity in the newfound freedom of the 1990s--readers will encounter work that reflects the literary paradox of Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century: the startling originality of the new uneasily coupled with the strains of history; the sophistication and self-consciousness of late (or post-) modernity married to the simplicity of a literature first finding its voice; a refusal of political influence and pressure expressed through frankly political subject matter.

Balkan Blues

Author : Joanna Labon
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810113251
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Blues written by Joanna Labon and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, stories and a play set in Yugoslavia. The title piece, written by Dubravka Ugresic, is a satire on murderous folklore, while Bogdan Bogdanovic's The City of Death is on Belgrade.

The Tribes of Albania

Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857725866
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Tribes of Albania written by Robert Elsie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Robert Elsie provides comprehensive material on the 69 different tribes, including data on their locations, religious affiliations, tribal structures and relations, population statistics, tribal folklore, legends and history. Also included are excerpts from the works of prominent nineteenth and early-twentieth century writers, such as Edith Durham and Johann Georg von Hahn, who travelled through the tribal regions, as well as short biographies on prominent figures linked to the tribes. As the first book of its kind, The Tribes of Albania will be of interest to scholars and students of the Balkans, of southeastern European anthropology, ethnography and history.

Closed for Repairs

Author : Nancy Alonso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Closed for Repairs written by Nancy Alonso and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closed for Repairs is a series of eleven vignettes that depict Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems. Each solution is framed with humor and irony and gives a glimpse of life on the island today. In a clever fashion, Nancy Alonso shows us the spirit of resolve on the part of Cubans when faced with such issues as transportation problems, lack of water, and the shortage of consumer goods and construction materials caused by the embargo. Illuminating the endurance and resilience of the Cuban people, these stories will make you chuckle. Alonso's sly wit is compelling as she satirizes the bureaucracy-an element of her work that will resonate universally. Nancy Alonso is an award-winning short story writer with a background in biological science. She published Tirar la Primera Piedra (Casting the First Stone) in 1997 and Cerrado por Reparacion (Closed for Repairs) in 2002. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies in Cuba and abroad. She currently lives in Cojimar, Cuba. Anne Fountain teaches Latin American Literature and Culture and coordinates Latin American Studies at San Jose State University. She is the author of Jose Marti and U.S. Writers (University Press of Florida, 2003) and Versos Sencillos: A Dual-Language Edition (McFarland, 2005).

Balkan Biodiversity

Author : Huw I. Griffiths
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402028547
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Balkan Biodiversity written by Huw I. Griffiths and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first attempt to synthesize current understanding of biodiversity in the great European hot spot. A diverse group of international researchers offers perspective on biodiversity at the level of the gene, species and ecosystem, including contributions on temporal change. Biological groups include plants, mammals, spiders and humans, cave-dwelling organisms, fish, aquatic invertebrates and algae.

Eastward to Tartary

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153477
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Eastward to Tartary written by Robert D. Kaplan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.

Blood Ties

Author : İpek Yosmaoğlu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469791
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Blood Ties written by İpek Yosmaoğlu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region that is today Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents. In the final decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, however, the region was periodically racked by a bitter conflict that was qualitatively different from previous outbreaks of violence. In Blood Ties, Ipek K. Yosmaoglu explains the origins of this shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social history of the "Macedonian Question."Yosmaoglu's account begins in the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin (1878), when a potent combination of zero-sum imperialism, nascent nationalism, and modernizing states set in motion the events that directly contributed to the outbreak of World War I and had consequences that reverberate to this day. Focusing on the experience of the inhabitants of Ottoman Macedonia during this period, she shows how communal solidarities broke down, time and space were rationalized, and the immutable form of the nation and national identity replaced polyglot, fluid associations that had formerly defined people's sense of collective belonging. The region was remapped; populations were counted and relocated. An escalation in symbolic and physical violence followed, and it was through this process that nationalism became an ideology of mass mobilization among the common folk. Yosmaoglu argues that national differentiation was a consequence, and not the cause, of violent conflict in Ottoman Macedonia.

The Balkans in World History

Author : Andrew Baruch Wachtel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199882738
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Balkans in World History written by Andrew Baruch Wachtel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the historical and literary imagination, the Balkans loom large as a somewhat frightening and ill-defined space, often seen negatively as a region of small and spiteful peoples, racked by racial and ethnic hatred, always ready to burst into violent conflict. The Balkans in World History re-defines this space in positive terms, taking as a starting point the cultural, historical, and social threads that allow us to see this region as a coherent if complex whole. Eminent historian Andrew Wachtel here depicts the Balkans as that borderland geographical space in which four of the world's greatest civilizations have overlapped in a sustained and meaningful way to produce a complex, dynamic, sometimes combustible, multi-layered local civilization. It is the space in which the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, of Byzantium, of Ottoman Turkey, and of Roman Catholic Europe met, clashed and sometimes combined. The history of the Balkans is thus a history of creative borrowing by local people of the various civilizations that have nominally conquered the region. Encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey, the Balkans have absorbed many voices and traditions, resulting in one of the most complex and interesting regions on earth.

Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans

Author : Ebru Boyar
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans written by Ebru Boyar and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. This work charts the creation of the modern Turkish self-perception during the transition period from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.

Spies of the Balkans

Author : Alan Furst
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812977386
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Spies of the Balkans written by Alan Furst and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. As Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Balkans, spies begin to circle—and Costa Zannis, a senior police official, must deal with them all. He is soon in the game, working to secure an escape route for fugitives from Nazi Berlin that is protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters—and hunted by the Gestapo. Meanwhile, as war threatens, the erotic life of the city grows passionate. For Zannis, that means a British expatriate who owns the local ballet academy, a woman from the dark side of Salonika society, and the wife of a shipping magnate. With extraordinary historical detail and a superb cast of characters, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to fight back against the world’s evil.

The Tiger's Wife

Author : Téa Obreht
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604367
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Tiger's Wife written by Téa Obreht and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle) “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly “Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace.”—Time ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times; Entertainment Weekly; The Christian Science Monitor; The Kansas City Star; Library Journal In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, hailed by Colum McCann as “the most thrilling literary discovery in years,” has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Economist, Vogue, Slate, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, Dayton Daily News, Publishers Weekly, Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered

Vampire Nation

Author : Toma Longinović
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350394
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Vampire Nation written by Toma Longinović and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.

The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri

Author : Bashkim Shehu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810121115
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri written by Bashkim Shehu and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery--and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of The Return of Martin Guerre and Kafka's The Trial, with allusions to The Odyssey and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld for one day, Shehu's novel blends the autobiographical and the historical, the personal and the political into a powerful tale--a story that conveys the terrors, small and large, of a totalitarian state while capturing all that is surreal and even lyrical in life in such a deeply distorted world.

Martin Kacur

Author : Ivan Cankar
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211655
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Martin Kacur written by Ivan Cankar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Martin Kačur, which dates from 1907, tells the engrossing story of a young schoolteacher who moves from one provincial Slovene town to the next, trying to enlighten his countrymen and countrywomen but instead receiving only the mistrust and scorn of the traditional-minded and petty population. The novel is ruthless in its analysis and self-analysis of the failure of this abstract idealist. Brilliant descriptions of Slovenia’s natural beauty alternate with the haze of alcoholic despair, rural violence, marital alienation, and the death of a young and beloved child. The Slovene prose writer, poet, and dramatist Cankar’s characterizations of duplicitous political and religious leaders (the village priest, the mayor, other teachers, doctors, etc.) and the treacherous social scene are remarkable in their engaging clarity. No doubt the raw emotional impact of Martin Kačur derives partly from Cankar’s portrayal of the way society isolates people, denying them sympathy and solidarity. Cankar's style here owes a debt both to naturalism and to symbolism and contains, in its sometimes frantic pace and associative interior monologues, hints of early expressionism.

Albania in Pictures

Author : Tom Streissguth
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761363785
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Albania in Pictures written by Tom Streissguth and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albania maintains a distinct national identity despite a violent history of many different ruling groups. In one of Europe's poorest nations, resourceful Albanians fight harsh terrain to make agriculture the country's primary business.

The Balkan Trail

Author : Frederick Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balkan Trail written by Frederick Moore and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Balkan Express

Author : Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393341225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Balkan Express written by Slavenka Drakulic and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays not in the hardcover edition.