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The Cursed Yard is one of the best and most famous novels by Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andrić. This novel is based on the principle of "story within a story", which allowed the writer to combine several narratives at once. One of them takes place at the beginning of the last century in an Istanbul prison, where a Franciscan friar from Bosnia was thrown by a bad fate. The other story goes back to the fifteenth century and tells the real fate of Cem Sultan, who fought for power with his brother Bayezid II.

Despite the intense plot, this is also a philosophical novel, in which the parable of rival brothers turns into a reflection on the clash between romantic and pragmatic principles, and not only the prison yard but also human life itself becomes the "cursed courtyard."