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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Death and the Dervish by Mesa Selimovic (Literature) The sad tale set during the Ottoman rule
in 18th-century Bosnia. Selimovic was a bestselling Bosnian Muslim author in the 1960s, this
is considered a classic in Bosnia.

?SP .PWWT^_ ZQ >L]LUPaZ by Steven Galloway (Literature) This international bestseller tells the
haunting tale of four people living in war-torn Sarajevo as their lives are upended, forcing
them to explore the very meaning of humanity.

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book known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of
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a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Slovenia

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of Central Europe. Stands out from other history books about the region because the author
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them into East (Soviet Bloc) and West.

Albania
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experiences during World War II, this novel follows a sensitive boy struggling to grow up in
an occupied town near the Albanian-Greek border. The author is considered one of Albania’s
most famous writers.

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draws on her time living with a Roma (gypsy) family from Albania in the 1990s to illuminate
gypsy heritage in general.
?SP ,WMLYTLY^% , 8ZOP]Y 3T^_Z]d by Miranda Vickers (History) An historical account that traces
the history of the Albanian people from the Ottoman era to the formation of the Albanian
Communist Party.

Serbia

-WLNV 7LXM LYO 2]Ld 1LWNZY by Rebecca West (History) First published in two volumes in 1941
(in the U.S.), this description of a journey through Serbia and Montenegro (then Yugoslavia)
in 1937 is widely recognized as a masterpiece. The landscape and people of Yugoslavia, its
history, cultures, religions, and politics are brilliantly observed.

>P]MTL% ?SP 3T^_Z]d ZQ LY 4OPL by Stevan K. Pavlowitch (History) A readable history focusing on
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of Serbia.

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