Description: Under Pressure is a novel in fragments - brutal and heart-wrenching stories from the frontline by Bosnian writer Faruk Sehic. This book secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region in the post-war period. A war veteran and a poet,
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"Šehić literally describes the war through the gun sight of an AK-47. His book is brutal, naturalistic, honest and uncompromising; his characters kill and get killed, they rob corpses and homes, they get drunk and get into fights, they parade in front of a mirror wearing a uniform ripped off a dead soldier... There's drugs and alcohol in abundance, and they are - paradoxically - reason's last line of defence. But more importantly, Šehić does not use that paradox to describe his characters, but rather the times they live in. Alcohol and drugs are the means of escape into a better, parallel reality, to escape into an illusion of life." JOSIP MLAKIĆ