Istros Books has a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to translate and publish Under Pressure, a short story collection by war veteran and writer, Faruk Šehić. Šehić’s debut novel, Quiet Flows the Una, published in Will Firth’s English translation by Istros, won the 2013 EU Prize for Literature.
The book was first published in Bosnian in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize, depicting the Bosnian War through the experience of ordinary people.
Read more about the Kickstarter campaign here
Read an excerpt from Quiet Flows the Una in B O D Y here
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