Under Pressure is a fragmentary book that brings together brutal and heart-wrenching stories from the frontline of the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.
It was this book that secured Faruk Sehic's reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region in recent years.
A war veteran and a poet, Sehic combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader: never maudlin or sensationalist, his writing exposes the ugly heart of man's inhumanity and the dreadful cost borne by those who find themselves caught up in conflict.
"Under Pressure is not for the fainthearted. As the main protagonist warns: “horror has an agent in every cell of my body.” It’s a bold work that never lets up and, like war, it’s gruelling, ragged and unbearably sad." - Lucy Popescu, New Humanist