Summary
Ivo Andrić: Tales of a Woman
Before you is a collection of short stories by Ivo Andrić whose focal character is a woman and a woman's destiny. The female characters in Andrić's prose are simultaneously strong and weak: the fate of women becomes that marginalized microcosm in which the always difficult and complicated history of our regions is revealed most clearly and most drastically. "A woman stands as a gate, at the exit, as well as at the entrance of this world," said Andrić. In this collection, Andrić's masterpieces of narrative prose such as: The Way of Alija Đerzelez, Mara Milosnica, Anika's Time, The Restless Year, Jelena, the Woman Who Doesn't Have...
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