Bücher veröffentlicht von Istros Books

Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man who has been stung by the horrors of war. Through his meditative prose, Sehic attempts to reconstruct the life of a man who is bipolar in nature; being both a veteran and a poet, who manages to re-build his life by reconnecting with nature and the memories of an idyllic childhood.

This harrowing tale, which spans sixteen hours and is told through the eyes of a mysterious narrator, delves into the bad blood between two timeless villages in south-eastern Turkey.

The extraordinary storyteller and playwright Ludovic Bruckstein presents us with a lost world of Jewish history and lore in the central European Carpathian region, now parts of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, invoking now lost storytelling tradition of great 'maggids' of Jewish history.

A mother, a father and a son face illness and the new restrictions of a declared pandemic in the context of their native Croatia. The dream of returning as a family to the sun-soaked terrace of their home in Dalmatia is what inspires them to face - and conquer all. Ivica Prtenjäa is a quiet novelist at ease in his craft, restrained in his narrative voice, while confident that his characters and their meandering fates will do their work on the reader. Let's Go Home, Son has got everything it needs. Family values, loss, guilt, shame, love, disappointment and cautious hope.

A collection to whet the appetite of anyone wishing to learn more about a region rich in history, folklore and (her)stories. Telling it like a woman does not mean literature for women only: it provides an insight into half of humanity, a window onto the lives of citizens who work, love and develop their inner lives. This collection brings together the voices of a wide selection of prize-winning and established authors:Balkan Bombshells brings together established Serbian and Montenegrin writers like Svetlana Slap¿ak, Jelena Lengold (winner of the EU Prize for Literature 2013), Dana Todorovi¿ and Olja Kne¿evi¿ (author of Catherine the Great and the Small, Istros 2020), together with a select group of up-coming writers: Marijana ¿anak (1982, Serbia): ¿Awakened¿ (Probüena) follows the early years of a girl from a very simple background, who discovers she has extrasensory powers. A gruesome fascination with biology allows her to attend high school, where she ends up sewing a voodoo doll to take revenge on a molesting teacher. Marijana Doli¿ (1990, Bosnia-Herzegovina & Serbia): ¿Notes from the attic¿ (Zapisi iz potkrovlja), originally diary entries, are intense mediatations on faith, love and hope ¿ poignant testimony to a struggle to cope in difficult times. Ana Milö (1992, Serbia): ¿Peace¿ (Mir) portrays a woman struggling with disparate feelings after her only child dies. She has long since broken up with the child¿s father. She enjoys finally having time for herself, but she has to confront accusations of people around her that she is heartless. Once a mother, always a mother? Katarina Mitrovi¿ (1991, Serbia):¿Small death¿ (Mala smrt). We are introduced to a fearful young woman who is far from happy with life, and we follow her on a summer holiday by the Adriatic, where a halfhearted romantic adventure takes a scary turn. Andrea Popov Mileti¿ (1985, Serbia):|: excerpt from the novel Young pioneers, we are seaweed (Pioniri maleni, mi smo morska trava; 2019). This stand-alone excerpt is a poetic flashback to her childhood in the province of Vojvodina in the Yugoslav era, to holidays by the Mediterranean, and to feelings of belonging and home. Lena Ruth Stefanovi¿ (1970, Sebria/ Montenegro): ¿Zhenyä is a fragment from her 2016 novel Daughter of the Childless Man (¿¿er onoga bez ¿ece), is an entertaining meta-story about an ordinary woman in the late Soviet Union, whom the author decides to grant a new lease of life, so Zhenya studies languages, becomes a mondain writer and moves with her new husband to Montenegro, where the author loses track of her.

For the Good of All is a book for our time - a time where we need a greater understanding of our bodily and emotional needs, as well as of our place in a globalised world where health has become a major issue. Since the beginnings of civilization, humans have relied on and respected the earth and its bounty, understanding that the energy of nature sustains and protects us when we live in balance. The aim of this succinct handbook is to encourage us to take an active role in our own well-being by bringing together the basics of good nutrition, mindfulness and vibrational medicine. Here you will find simple advice about diet and fitness, along with explorations of the more spiritual side of healing involving auras, meridian lines and the chakra system (our personal energy fields), ley lines (the earth's energy fields) and the energetic signatures of all that exists (the vibrational makeup of material and intangible phenomena which we tap into as we dowse). Everything contained in these pages has been composed, explained and published for the good of all. It is the first title of a new imprint that was inspired by and conceived by the work of David Willocks in New Zealand - mimosa books, named after the second star of the Southern Cross, a constellation beloved of the peoples of that nation and region.

At the age of 86, Dov Hoenig decided to travel back in his mind to WWII Bucharest to tell the story of his 12-year-old self and so many Jewish families caught in the midst of struggle and terror.

The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform, rebel, construct alternative realities of the imagination, cultivate hope, cling to memories of lost love, or devisenincreasingly strange and surreal strategies of resistance. The characters inndifferent stories are linked to one another, and in their human relationships create a total picture of a secret and terrifying world. In the prisoners¿ back stories, the anecdotes they tell, and their political discussions, the book also reaches out beyond the walls and barbed wire to give the reader a panoramic picture of life in totalitarian Albania.

A woman searches for identity amidst the deviation of war and the dislocation of immigration. Drndic's characteristic irony and sense of the weight of history set the prose alight. A book for all times.

Special Needs is a novel which affirms that which is authentically human within all of us, following the life of a young boy with physical difficulties who elects to speak only to those who truly see him.

The Masterpiece is a love story with tinges of the political thriller, written in a tantalizing prose style. Set in the golden years of 1980s Yugoslavia,

We all have our battles to fight, and for the author and main character, it is his near blindness since birth. This is the story of one man's journey to success within a small society, and his experiences with the 'blind men' of politics.

A richly detailed political novel in a fantastic setting which is part love story part thriller

The Fig Tree is a multi-generational family saga, a tour de force spanning three generations from the mid-20th century through the Balkans wars of the 90s until present day; at its heart this is an intimate story of family, of relationships, of love and freedom and the choices we make.

This is a pseudo-autobiographical novel that returns post-postmodernism to modernism and offers an intimate portrayal of the limits of women's desire and freedom against the backdrop of ethnic, class and gender tensions of a declining Austro-Hungarian empire.

A meditation of the cultural and religious significance of bread throughout history

Catherine is a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique identity as a daughter, granddaughter, friend, mistress, wife and a mother.

Queries the concept of six degrees of separation as it relates dozens of tales, some entertaining, others unpredictable or tragic. She weaves her way through an amusing chain of interlinked lives and complex personalities connected by insanity (manifest or latent).Old sins do indeed cast long shadows.

Wild Woman is an anti-love story, set against a background of economic hardship. Told through the undiluted language of thought and mania, the twists and turns of internal dialogue are brought alive by a narrator determined to find her true voice.To go wild in order to be free.

A stunning, unique and deadly serious exploration of the roots and results of the Bosnian civil war of the early 1990s. Magical realism Balkan style: complete with some of the most terrifying characters of fantasy fiction.

A seminal novel by one of Romania's most respected writers and intellectuals An early exploration of adolescence, first love and burning ambition.

Dry Season is a record of a love affair that spans continents and defies expectations. When a retired designer from Slovenia starts a relationship with a man from Burkino Faso less than half her age, the stage is set for a battle against prejudice, racism and the social mores that both societies set on them.

A murder mystery, a tale of time-travel and a wonderful evocation of the "spirit" of fin de siecle Central Europe. This award-winning novel takes the reader and the hero back in time to life more simple and more romantic.

A collection of short stories which focus very much on the position of women in society, and in particular in modern Turkish society.

One of the most exciting and beautifully written books to come out of contemporary Croatia. A suicide, a quest for truth, a desire for revenge and a love story thrown in, all set in a landscape redolent of transient glamour and unrealized small-town dreams.

Fairytales for adults: erotic, tragic, sometimes absurd and often very funny

One man's search for his true identity through an investigation of his parent's past which leads him to discover truths about the former Yugoslav secret services. Through his own unique and now recognizable style, Nikolaidis takes us into a world of criminal intrigue and a dissection of our humble human existence. Powerful, rich in philosophy.

A fascinating dissection of the political and social events which rapidly bought one of the world's strictest Stalinist regime to rough capitalism and financial collapse.

One of the very few novels about WWI to have reached the UK market from the Eastern Front. Winner of every literary prize in Serbia upon its publication, The Great War is author Aleksandar Gatalica's opum magnus; following the lives and deaths of spies, singers and soldiers from all warring sides, as each is drawn into this world-changing conflict