After nine months of self-imposed isolation following his wife's departure, the hero of Seven Terrors finally decides to face his loneliness and join the world once more. However, when the daughter of his old friend Aleksa appears at his front door one morning searching for her missing father, he realises that his life is again about to change. As the two search for clues in Aleksa's war diary, unearthed in a library in Sweden, they come upon tales of unspeakable horror and mystery: meetings with ghosts, a town under siege, demonic brothers who ride on the wings of war, and many more things so dangerous – and so precious – that they can only be discussed by the dead.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Sevedin Avdić's first book was a collection of short stories called Tenants and other Phantoms, a tourist guide to the historic Bosnian town of Jajce and a factual account of Zenica prison. His short stories have also appeared in various anthologies and collections, and he has also written a biography of his hometown, Zenica, entitled My Factory, which has been adapted into a theatre play. He works as editor-in-chief of the online magazine Žurnal. His first novel, Seven Terrors, was published in 2010 and was immedialtely shortlisted for one of the most prestigious literary awards in the region. Avdić's new novel, A Drop of Joy, was published in Bosnian in 2018, with an English edition to follow shortly.
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