The wartime stories of two Bosnian authors, Faruk Sehic and Hasan Nuhanovic, have arrived in translation
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When the war broke out in 1992 Mr Nuhanovic was a mechanical-engineering student in Sarajevo; Mr Sehic was studying to be a vet in Zagreb. Because his family did not flee in time, Mr Nuhanovic ended up in Srebrenica, the Bosniak enclave that was besieged by Serb forces; eventually he became a translator for the. For his part, Mr Sehic signed up to fight, and led a group of 130 soldiers in his native Bihac area, which was also surrounded by Serbs.
The tales that Mr Sehic tells are graphic. When the narrator’s outfit seizes a trench, they find a still-warm corpse. In his wallet is a passport-sized photo of the dead man: “He had a receding hairline. Large, melancholy eyes. With the sharp edge of the photograph I floss bits of apple from between my teeth.” As the narrator pops pills, throws punches and succumbs to post-traumatic stress, his heart skips “like a series of short bursts of machinegun fire”—as does Mr Sehic’s writing.
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