Death and the Dervish

Name: Death and the Dervish
Author: Mesha Selimovic

by Mesha Selimovic

Philosophical novel about a dervish's crisis of faith in Ottoman Bosnia

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Mesha Selimovic

Yugoslav Bosnian author whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the masterpieces of South Slavic literature, a meditation on justice, faith, and complicity set in Ottoman Bosnia.

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