About the Book The Bosnian Hangman is a chronicle about the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, during tumultuous war times. The novel starts with the moment when the state executioner, Alois Seifried, arrives to Sarajevo with Austro-Hungarian forces, who are chasing out the Turks after the fall of the monstrous Ottoman Empire. It concludes with the...