by Ivo Andrić · Cavalo de Ferro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896230982
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«O Pátio Maldito» is the historical novel by Ivo Andrić, published by Cavalo de Ferro in paperback (119 pages, in Portuguese).
Frei Petar, a Bosnian Christian monk, mistakenly enters a prison in Istanbul called «El patio maldito», where murderers, conspirators and innocents of all kinds and religions cross paths. The stories of his companions mix present and past, reality and fiction, in a reflection on the human condition and the Balkan conflicts.
Work originally published in 1954 as «Prokleta avlija». Ivo Andrić was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Portuguese translation by Lúcia and Dejan Stanković.
For readers of historical fiction and 20th-century European classics, especially those interested in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire.
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
