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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.
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Bosnian Chronicle
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.
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.
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.
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.
Suite Française
A wealthy Parisian family flees the Nazi invasion alongside millions of refugees, and their intertwined story with a German soldier reveals the intimacy of occupation.
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.
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.
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.
August 1914
The Russian army's invasion of East Prussia in August 1914 and its disaster at Tannenberg, seen through officers, soldiers and families across Russia.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
Death and the Dervish
Ahmed Nurudin, sheikh of a dervish lodge in Ottoman Sarajevo, begins to question everything when his brother is arrested and he cannot find out why.
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.