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Peony Red

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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Peony Red

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

In the Balkans, there is a saying: only where the ground was once soaked with blood will the peony bloom with its full, dizzying red. When a young couple is murdered in their home in Kosovo, police are perplexed: there seems to be no motive. But when Milena Lukin’s uncle realizes that the murdered woman was his first love, his niece decides to investigate. All too soon, she is embroiled in the twisted world of Balkan politics, where the past always weighs heavy on the present, and nowhere more so than in her hometown of Belgrade. Old prejudices and new hatreds, merciless profiteers and mendacious politicians—all come together to try to keep Lukin from finding the truth. A fast-paced, deftly told thriller Peony Red drops readers into the murky Balkan underworld. Fortunately, in Milena Lukin, they have a strong, capable, no-nonsense guide, one whose adventures will always keep the pages turning.

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Haus Publishing

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1910376957

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9781910376959

Lily White

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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Lily White

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

A thrilling crime novel set in Belgrade that dives into Serbia’s troubled history. Jelena Volić and Christian Schünemann’s latest thriller follows a case for criminologist Milena Lukin, the protagonist of their previous novels Cornflower Blue and Peony Red. Set in Belgrade, a city of flux between East and West, Lily White is a complex and riveting new story that once again will take Lukin to the dark heart of Serbia’s past. Bouquets of white lilies are mysteriously laid in a Belgrade street where, years earlier, a small Romani boy was beaten to death by two youths. One of the attackers was apprehended and imprisoned. The other was allowed to flee and, after twenty-five years on the run, he returns to Belgrade to confront his past. Days later, his corpse is found floating in the Danube River. After a cursory investigation, the police declare it to have been suicide and close the case, but the dead man’s lawyer and the criminologist Milena Lukin begin an investigation of their own. They soon stumble upon a clue that leads them into the darkest recesses of Serbian politics and to the root of a murder that shaped the fate of a country.

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229

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Haus Publishing

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1912208660

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9781912208661

From Cape Wrath to Finisterre

Sailing the Celtic Fringe

By: Bjorn Larsson,Jelena Volic

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From Cape Wrath to Finisterre

Sailing the Celtic Fringe

By: Bjorn Larsson,Jelena Volic

From Cape Wrath to Finisterre is a travelogue and an homage to Celtic lands and waters, from their northern to their south western landfalls. Cape Wrath points towards the Arctic Circle at Scotland's furthest northerly limit. "Perhaps I was looking for a homeland, perhaps not, or at any rate a place where it would be worth trying to live for a while as well as one can for as long as it lasts." Finisterre, the furthest point in Galicia in northern Spain, was so named for being "The End of the Earth," Larsson's contemplative musings on life as seen from the cockpit and deck of his yacht enliven this journey from Denmark around Scotland, through the Irish Sea and onwards to Brittany and Spain. "Yes, I admit to rootlessness and impermanence," he admits. "But restlessness, on the other hand, is a scourge. It and its modern variant, stress, the futility of running round in circles, are to be avoided at all costs. It is far from certain, of course, that this way of life would suit everybody, but if it instils in someone the desire to experiment with alternatives. I shall be happy.

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Haus Publishing

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1910376566

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Cornflower Blue

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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Cornflower Blue

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

Based on true events, Cornflower Blue is a tense thriller that explores the troubled legacy of the Bosnian War. On the night of the eleventh of July, two elite Serbian soldiers are on sentry duty at the Topcider military camp. The next morning, they are found dead. A military court declares them victims of a ritual suicide, and the investigation is closed. But inconsistencies in the official tribunal draw criminologist Milena Lukin to the case. What did the two guardsmen see on that fateful night, a date marking the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide? Up against a military complex with a history to hide, Milena soon finds herself in grave danger. Meticulously researched and rich in historical detail, Cornflower Blue is a gripping tale that bravely addresses one of the darkest hours in Europe’s recent history. “An exciting thriller, a story about the worst depths of human nature—but also a clever, nostalgic, loving homage to Belgrade and its inhabitants.”—Der Tagesspiegel, on the German edition

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Haus Publishing

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1908323973

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Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature

The Realms of Eternal Present

By: Jelena Todorović

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Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature

The Realms of Eternal Present

By: Jelena Todorović

This book presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature, a highly under-researched subject that spans two disciplines and several centuries. Its purpose is not to discover the direct links and references of one culture in the other, but, rather, to present the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality. The books explored here (Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, and The Investigator, by Dragan Velikić) are not novels that are consciously or purposefully Baroque in their structure, or use the age of the Baroque as the setting of their narratives. However, the Baroque is still present in them all, primarily as the aesthetic principle, as that invisible heritage that shapes the worldviews of their characters. They are Baroque in the sense of space they inhabit, and in the way reality and imagination are interwoven.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527506835

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9781527506831

Cornflower Blue

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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Peony Red

A Case for Milena Lukin

By: Christian Schünemann,Jelena Volic

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Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature

Hidden Legacies of Baroque Thought in Contemporary Literature

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