Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah

From award-winning writer Miljenko Jergović—candid tales that reprise and embroider Bosnia’s rich folklore

Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah 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 Jergović’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 steepl...