{"product_id":"inshallah-madonna-inshallah-9781962770613","title":"Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning writer Miljenko Jergovic--candid tales that reprise and embroider Bosnia's rich folklore\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInshallah, Madonna, Inshallah\u003c\/i\u003e begins from a point of listening--turning up the radio, dragging a cafe chair closer to the man with the saz, dropping a record needle. In the Sarajevo of Miljenko Jergovic's childhood, folk songs permeated life. Their dusky melodies filled car rides, scored television programs, and echoed down alleyways, hummed drunkenly as daybreak glazed the city's steeples and minarets.\u003cbr\u003eIn these nineteen stories, Jergovic imagines what might have inspired such wistful tunes, crafting a catalog of source material. The reader is loosed from her contemporary seat as relics of an old world arise. Time slows to an ancient cadence. Here lives become totemic, fate hangs like a scarf over the shoulderblades of heroes and scoundrels alike, while misfortune, hubris, and luck transform individuals into a collective cry. Like an accordion which unfolds to fill a room with sound, the book expands and compresses--by turns bawdy, brutal, funny and wise. Drawn from deep wells of folklore and collective storytelling, Jergovic weaves together an extraordinary ethnography that manages to both critique the imperial domination and strife that has marked the Balkan region for centuries, and to display, carefully and tenderly, the lives of individuals, be they Christian or Muslim. Lives that (\u003ci\u003einshallah\u003c\/i\u003e) seem to never end, in that boundless space of myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16601369\"\u003eMiljenko Jergovic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962770613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962770613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC010000\"\u003eFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends \u0026amp; Mythology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC051000\"\u003eCultural Heritage\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Sarajevo in 1966, \u003cb\u003eMiljenko Jergovic\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most prolific and widely translated ex-Yugoslav writers. His poetry, fiction, essays, and columns grapple with the legacy of the 1990s Bosnian war, Balkan history, and the tension between personal and official historical narratives. His landmark collection of stories \u003ci\u003eSarajevo Marlboro\u003c\/i\u003e received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize. Jergovic currently lives and works in Zagreb. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTRANSLATOR BIOS: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Elias-Bursac\u003c\/b\u003e translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of Ivana Bodrozic's novel \u003ci\u003eSons, Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e was given the EBRD Literature Prize in 2025. She has taught in the Harvard University Slavic Department, worked in the language services of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMirza Puric\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator, editor, and musician. His recent book-length translations include Marko Pogačar's \u003ci\u003eNeon South\u003c\/i\u003e (Sandorf Passage) and Faruk Sehic's \u003ci\u003eUnder Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e (Istros Books). He has published essays in \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Well Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229348909353,"sku":"9781962770613","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/9781962770613.jpg?v=1790356355","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/inshallah-madonna-inshallah-9781962770613","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}