We are pleased to invite you to the traditional Book Night, which will take place on December 26 in the Sarajevo and Tuzla bookstores Buybook. On this occasion, the bookshop in Radićeva street in Sarajevo will be open until midnight, and in TC Mercator in Tuzla until 9.30pm. The publishing house Buybook is celebrating its 26th birthday this year, and on that occasion it has prepared special discounts of 20 to 70% for its customers. Orders will also be possible via the buybook.ba web shop.
As every year until now, a large number of new titles by foreign and domestic authors will be available to the public for Book Night.
We particularly highlight award-winning foreign titles such as the novel "The Promise" by Damon Galgut, this year's Booker winner, "Little Things Like These" by Irish writer Claire Keegan, who was shortlisted for the Booker this year, and "A Field of Pears" by Georgian author Nana Ekvtimishvili, a novel that was shortlisted for the International Booker. There is also the novel "Kindness" by one of the most widely read Buybook authors, the Turkish Sebnem Işigüzel, who won the readership with the novels "The Residence of Tears" and "Venus", then "Samarkand" by Amin Maalouf, which has gained classic status over time, "Origin", a new novel by Saša Stanišić, "The Marriage Portrait" by one of the most widely read contemporary authors Maggie O'Farrell. When we talk about domestic authors, we highlight "Until a Better Yesterday" by Emina Žuna, "Pionirska dolina, Sarajevo" by Zlatan Nezirović, "Predaja" by Mehmed Begić, "Novi kraj" by Đurđica Čilić, "Nenošeni snovi" by Saida Mustajbegović, but also the second, expanded edition of the classic "Tajna jjema od malina" by Karim Zaimović.
For the youngest readers, we are publishing previously published books by one of the most widely read contemporary Turkish authors, Ahmet Ümit, "A Fairy Tale within a Fairy Tale" and "Neverland", the picture book "The Story of Pudding" by Sebnem Işigüzel, "Greetings of the Giraffe" by Anıli Basılıj, "The Little Frog" by Jakob Martin Strid, "Madžidove priče" by Houshang Moradi Kermanit, and "Čudesni svijet" by Vesna Mišanović.
The year that is ending was marked by excellent titles, with more than 50 of them published. The “Diary” edition, edited by Semezdin Mehmedinović, was launched and has published five books so far, of which “The Red Suitcase” by Lana Bastašić and “House People” by Almin Kaplan have already seen their second edition. When we talk about previously published titles, we should not forget the following – “The Fourth Violin” by Saša Savić, “Where Am I” by Jhumpa Lahiri, “Wonderful World, Where Are You”, the latest novel by Irish writer Sally Rooney, “Apeirogon” by Colum McCann, “Three Books” by Marko Vešović, “In Late Summer” by Magdalena Blažević, “Human Things” by Karina Tuil, “88” by Nadija Rebronja, winner of the “Zaim Azemović” award, “The Heat of Summer” by Defne Suman, “Apology” by Eva Ensler, “Klara, Clarisa” by Marijana Čanak, “The Wrong End of the Telescope” by Rabih Alameddin, “Say Fire” by Selma Asotić, winner of the “Stjepan Gulin” award, “Madžun” by Vlado Urošević, “Dissomnia” by Igor Stanojoski, “The Lazarus Project” by Aleksandar Hemon, “Don’t Go to Anderlecht” by Srđan Gavrilović, “Ophelia, the Gardener” by Nikolina Todorović, “Perina” by Goran Sarić, “Great Expectations: In Europe 1999–2021.” by Geert Mak, ... All ten titles published in the edition “From One Pandemic to Another: 100 Years of European Literature in 10 Books” are also available to the reading public.
Get your shopping lists ready and see you soon!