{"product_id":"9781681372525","title":"Omer Pasha Latas","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andrić about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOmer Pasha Latas\u003c\/i\u003e is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where  Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a  common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier,  commander in chief of the Sultan’s armies, and as the book begins he  arrives from Istanbul, dispatched to bring Sarajevo’s landowners to  heel, a task that he accomplishes with his usual ferocity and  efficiency. And yet the seraskier’s expedition to Bosnia is a time of  reckoning for him as well: he was born in the Balkans, a Serb and a  subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a bright boy who escaped his  father’s financial disgrace by running away and converting to Islam.  Now, at the height of his power, he heads an army of misfits,  adventurers, and outcasts from across Europe and Asia, and yet wherever  he goes he remains a stranger. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIvo Andrić, who won the Nobel Prize in 1961, is a spellbinding storyteller and a magnificent stylist, and here, in his final novel, he surrounds his enigmatic central figure with many vivid and fascinating minor characters, lost souls and hopeless dreamers all, in a world that is slowly sliding towards disaster. \u003ci\u003eOmer Pasha Latas\u003c\/i\u003e combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth’s \u003ci\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/i\u003e with the stark fatalism of an old ballad.","brand":"Ivo Andric","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035657908436,"sku":"9781681372525","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_61f9eeb7-de1f-4a02-80e4-6334f19c1696.jpg?v=1780366983","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781681372525","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}