{"product_id":"under-pressure-9781912545025","title":"Under Pressure","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer \u003cb\u003eFaruk Sehic\u003c\/b\u003e secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Faruk Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary critics have hailed \u003cb\u003eFaruk Sehic\u003c\/b\u003e as the leader of the \"mangled generation\" of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. \u003ci\u003eUnder Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel \u003ci\u003eQuiet Flows the Un\u003c\/i\u003ea received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist. \u003cb\u003eMirza Puric\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator working from German and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian. He is a contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eEuropeNow \u003c\/i\u003eand in-house translator for the Sarajevo Writers' Workshop. From 2014 to 2017 he was an editor-at-large for \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Istros Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445743718674,"sku":"9781912545025","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d7f177fc-d11c-4f9f-ac18-ebb8e58df125.jpg?v=1729703663","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/under-pressure-9781912545025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}