Three Elegies for Kosovo

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds, The Christian army - made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians - confronts an Ottoman army led by Sultan Mourad. In ten hours the battle is over, and the Muslims possess the field; an outcome that has haunted the vanquished ever since. These legends of betrayal and the symbols of defeat have continued to define the national identities of each race.


Genre: Literary Fiction