Under Pressure

ISBN: 1912545020

Condition: New

With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk ehic secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader; ehic literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal, naturalistic, honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed, they rob corpses and homes, they get drunk and get into fights, they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier. Theres drugs and alcohol in abundance, and they are-paradoxically-reasons last line of defense.