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Death and the Dervish

Death and the Dervish

Selimovic, Mesa
Rakic, Bogdan
Dickey, Stephen M.

Paperback

Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0810112973
ISBN13: 9780810112971
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Aug 14 1996
Pages: 473
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 4.60 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him. He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran. In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general.

Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic made into a feature length film in 1974.

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