Les contrées des âmes errantes
by Samic, Jasna
Description
In their modest Paris apartment coveted by the promoters, Lena sees Alyosha get drunk every night and obsessively obsessively look at his family documents. This once brilliant computer scientist, one of the most elegant men in Sarajevo, is undermined by his eternal interrogation: did his father, whom he did not know, roll convoys of death before disappearing in 1945 ?
Through three diaries of Alyocha's ascendants, that of his Babushka Liza - a Russian who knew Tolstoy and escaped Bolshevism to Bosnia -, that of his mother Irina and that of his Omama Grete – emigrated from Vienna to Sarajevo –, Lena tells the family saga of her first ex-husband, remained a lover then re-married to escape the war... Crossing wanderings mingled with her own – Sarajevo, Istanbul, London, New York and especially Paris – driven by her love for art and a fierce thirst for independence, in constant quest for authenticity, confronting against the winds and tides the ubiquitous apparatchiks, the devious males, the literary impostors, the Parisian snobs, the Islamist fundamentalists at last…
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Reviews
“Jasna Samic's latest novel is such a fascinating piece that it keeps us from beginning to end. We too are wandering with these ‘wandering souls’ that we encounter, they carry us from one end of the world to another, from one era to another; they are so complex, but so endearing that we become not only their companion but, in a certain way, their captive. […]
"The countries of wandering souls" is a book on wandering, and by that quite contemporary, but also on suffering. […] To conclude, let's say that the novel is based on real events, while being a fiction, in every sense of the word. One of the best I have ever read. ” (Sadzida, Decitre.)
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Author Biography
Born in Sarajevo, Jasna Samic lives in Paris. Specialist of Eastern Languages, Literatures and Civilizations, she taught at the Universities of Sarajevo and Strasbourg, was associate research director at CNRS, collaborated on France Culture and Radio France International. Choosen for the "Stendhal Missions" program, she currently directs the magazine "Književna Sehara". She is also a translater and documentary filmmaker.
She writes in French and Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian). Her work includes texts on Sufism and history of the Balkans, essays, novels, short stories, poetry and theater.
Following the publication of "Portrait of Balthazar" (Gauchez-Philippot Price) and her stance against the rise of Wahhabi in BiH, Jasna Samic was violently attacked by the Bosnian fundamentalists, who are calling for a fatwa against her. She regularly receives death threats and was considered by the International PEN Club as a writer in danger.
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- Publisher M.E.O.
- Publication Date April 2019
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782807001947
- Publication Country or regionBelgium
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 25 EUR
- Pages436
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions210 x 145 mm
- IllustrationNone
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