The article looks at the narration of ethnocide through a comparative reading of two contemporary Bosnian novels (Kljucanin's Prieevalec and Karahasan's Nocni shod) about the Bosnian War (1992-1995) against the historical and literary backdrop of other selected novels that thematize nationalisms in the Yugoslav Wars and their effects. The comparison reveals recourse to testimonial discourse and the attendant use of "non-mimetic" narrative strategies of temporality ("circular," "melded") as a common narrative strategy. These are attended, moreover, by the specific treatment of the motif and theme of "the spectre," which evokes the Islamic religious context and the cultural-historical embeddedness of the narrative and which at the same time facilitates the intrusion of the fantastic or even a reading in the magical realist code.