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In 1807 a French consul arrives in Travnik, the remote seat of the Ottoman vizier of Bosnia, followed by an Austrian rival, and both spend years trying to make sense of the place.
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Omer Pasha Latas
In 1850 Omer Pasha Latas, a Serb convert who has risen to Ottoman general, rides into Sarajevo to crush the rebellious Bosnian beys, and the city waits to see what he will do.
Iceland's Bell
At the end of the seventeenth century, under Danish rule, Jón Hreggviðsson, a poor farmer accused of killing the king's hangman, wanders Iceland and Europe while a scholar collects the country's ancient manuscripts.
The Bridge on the Drina
The stone bridge over the Drina at Višegrad, built by a grand vizier in the 1570s, and the Muslims, Christians and Jews of the town who live around it over four centuries until the First World War.
Cities of Salt
In a desert oasis in an unnamed Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, Americans arrive looking for oil, and the oasis, its people and their way of life are swept away.
Troubles
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer, shaken by the war, arrives at a crumbling hotel on the Irish coast to see the fiancée he barely remembers, and watches the building, and the empire, fall apart around him.
Gora
In 1880s Calcutta, Gora, a fiery young champion of orthodox Hindu nationalism, argues his way through friendships, love and politics, not knowing the truth about his own birth.
The Gathering Storm
The first volume of Churchill's history of the Second World War: the twenty years from the Treaty of Versailles to May 1940, when he became Prime Minister.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
The Family Moskat
The wealthy Moskat family of Warsaw and its old patriarch Meshulam, from the turn of the century to the German bombardment of 1939.
God's Bits of Wood
In 1947 and 1948 the African workers on the Dakar to Niger railway go on strike against their French employers, and the women of their towns hold the strike together.
In the First Circle
Over three days in December 1949, imprisoned scientists in a special prison outside Moscow work on secret projects for Stalin's police while a diplomat makes a dangerous phone call.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.