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The shared history of Serbia and the Ottoman Empire, at the time of the First Serbian Uprising, is the setting of a story about the circumstances, motives and consequences of what its historical figures did. Though it looks at first like a straightforward, action-filled novel, it is woven through with side stories from Tsar Dušan's court, about Phanariot Greeks, from Hilandar, Hungary and Montenegro, and above all from Istanbul and Niš: seventy-year-old girls, the Cuman language community, the misfortune of Hafiz Pasha of Niš, patriotic merchants and Karađorđe's envoy in the shadows of the Porte. Its other side is the selam, a message and a gift, and the secret of a selam language.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

261 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Serbia, Türkiye, early 19th century

First published

2010 by Geopoetika

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788661450242 (original)