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Post by Aedh on Aug 7, 2009 23:25:39 GMT -5
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Post by Aedh on Aug 7, 2009 23:29:10 GMT -5
The story of Karasevdah unfolds over six days during the Austrian occupation of Bosnia-Hercegovina in 1908. In Part One, a mountain chieftain murders a neighbour and his household. Confronted by his family, he confesses, but is unable to explain his actions. Believing himself to have been possessed by his dead brother’s spirit, the man embarks on a dream-quest through unseen realms and other times to ravel out the roots of his crime, while his kindred attempt to buy him time by stalling both the Austrian authorities’ investigation and the blood-vengeance demanded by tradition. The Austrians too, in their time in the village, find themselves becoming irretrievably entangled in the society over which they are asserting authority, while their presence ignites smouldering resentments between Croat and Serb clans.
In Part Two, the funerals of the victims stir up latent political and social forces. Open conflict erupts over the man’s arrest during a village gathering, while some of the concerned villagers and Austrians are forced to confront their own backgrounds and motivations. As the characters are faced with choosing sides and armed conflict looms, matters move swiftly toward a treachery-ridden climax--which involves a challenge to the nature of reality itself, as well as regional politics on the eve of the wars of 1912-1918.
This work is best described as a Balkan-Gothic novel of occult suspense. I do not pretend to be talking about Bosnia today, although I have put years of research into recreating Bosnia as it was a hundred years ago, and adding what could have been. I have slightly shifted one or two historical events in their timing, for the purpose of plot facilitation, but all them did happen as I describe them, and the historical characters are real and actually did what I describe them as doing. This story could have happened. Did it? Well ... perhaps only "Nick" knows for sure ...
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Post by Aedh on Aug 8, 2009 8:12:47 GMT -5
Ah, yes ... nearly forgot. How to read the whole thing ...
It is in print and available for purchase from Amazon.com. Just go to Amazon and search 'Books' for "Karasevdah" and it will be the first one up.
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