Quiet Flows the Una. Faruk Šehić

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      Table of Contents

       QUIET FLOWS THE UNA

       Hypnosis

       Mariners of the Green Army

       Watching the Fish

       The Water’s Republic

       Autumn, the Moss-grown Horseman from the North

       Growing with the Plants

       No Resurrection, no Death

       Catching a Fish

       Prince of the Una, Dragons and Reconstruction

       The Gods of the River

       Aquatic Catharsis

       Grandmother

       The Origin of the Species

       The Final Battle

       Night-time Journey

       Gargano, etc.

       Bright Nights

       The Black Sabbath

       The Layers of Fear Inside Me

       2007 According to Gargano

       Somewhere in the Earth

       1992 – Year Zero

       Snake Power

       Emil

       The Heart

       Spring

       The Monster from the Juice Warehouse

       The Ballad of the Black Hole

       Refugees

       Indian Summer

       An Angler’s Hymn

       The Smell of the Burned Town

       The Hunchbacks

       Diving into the Mirror

       Green Threads

       Watermark

       The River Bank in Winter

       The Love of Ruins

       Blind Spots

       Elegy for a Toshiba

       Centaur

       Smith the Redeemer, AKA the Conductor of Clouds

       The House on Two Waters

       The First Words of the Book

       The House of Horrors

       The Author

       The Translator

      QUIET FLOWS THE UNA

      Faruk Šehić

      Translated from the Bosnian by Will Firth

      Forgetting is a form of memory, its vague basement, the other, secret, side of the coin.

      Jorge Luis Borges

      My mind forgets, but my body keeps the score. The body is bleeding history.

      Geoffrey Hartman

      First published in 2016 by Istros Books, London, United Kingdom www.istrosbooks.com

      Originally published in Bosnian as Knjiga o Uni, by Buybook, Sarajevo

      © Faruk Šehić, 2016

      The right of Faruk Šehić to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

      Translation © Will Firth, 2016

      Illustrations and cover art: Aleksandra Nina Knežević

      Typesetting and design: Davor Pukljak, www.frontispis.hr

      978-1-908236-49-4 (printed edition)

      978-1-908236-75-3 (Eook)

      The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects