Quiet Flows the Una is a fragmented, lyrical novel of war, memory, and river-time, written by a former Bosnian soldier.

Šehić structures the book as a series of drifting essays, visions, lists, and recollections, anchored by the Una River who acts as witness, archive, and counter-history.

It sits somewhere between prose poem, anti-war memoir, and ecological lament. It belongs to a post-Yugoslav literary lineage concerned with ruins, aftermath, and the ethics of remembering, but it’s also unusually tender and funny in places. A quiet, difficult book that rewards slow reading rather than narrative momentum.

This copy: signed and inscribed by the author, dated London, 21.3.16.