Walking through Sarajevo, one novella takes prime position in the city’s bookops: Faruk Šehić’s latest work, Greta. Šehić, who won the European Prize for Literature in 2013 for his debut novel, Quiet Flows the Una, is a household name in Bosnia and Herzegovina — both for his poetry, and for his prose. I meet Šehić in a cafe by the river Miljacka in the capital, where he often goes to be close to water. “I love rivers,” he tells me. His claim doesn’t come as a surprise.
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