Tragom zmijske košuljice

Ottoman Bosnia, the seventeenth century. In a cold cell of the Franciscan monastery at Fojnica, Friar Ivo Lašvanin keeps a chronicle of human suffering in fourteen stations: plague, greedy officials, fines and taxes that weigh on the friars and on ordinary people. When villagers find a mysterious corpse in the mountains, they face trial and the blood tax owed by any district where a murdered man is found, so Friar Ivo sets out to investigate, following a note in Turkish found with the body; the language was taught to him by Friar Petar, the uncle who watched over him. Marking his life by two deaths, Petar's and that of Katarina, the woman he loved, he writes in fear of emptiness, unsure where witness ends and invention begins.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

163 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bosnia & Herzegovina

First published

2007 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789532018202 (original)