Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic.
Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic made into a feature length film in 1974..
In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general.
He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran.
When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him.
It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a Dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans.
Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic