Hawkesworth, Celia
Omer Pasha Latas
- ISBN 13:
- 9781681372525
- author:
- Hawkesworth, Celia
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions:
- 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction & Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul. Omer Pasha Latas is set against the backdrop of Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians coexist in uneasy harmony, resenting the distant rule of the Ottomans. As the commander-in-chief of the Sultan's armies, Omer Pasha Latas arrives in Sarajevo with a mission to bring landowners under control. However, this expedition also marks a turning point for him, as he confronts his own identity and the consequences of his past choices. Born in the Balkans, a Serb who converted to Islam to escape financial hardship, Omer is now at the height of his power, leading an army of misfits from across Europe and Asia. Andrić's final novel weaves together a rich tapestry of characters, lost souls and hopeless dreamers, all set against the backdrop of a world sliding towards disaster. This epic tale combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March with the stark fatalism of an old ballad.
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