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Nobody's Home
Taking us on travels through Europe, and across to the US, this book offers perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. It also says that while the Eastern bloc is …
Thank You for Not Reading
Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with …
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears …
CULTURE OF LIES
The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that …
Lend Me Your Character
From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your …
The Ministry of Pain
Abandoned by her husband in Berlin after being forced into exile by the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic seeks sanctuary in the Department of Slavonic Language at the …
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed …
Culture of Lies
A Muzzle for Witches
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its …
Europe in Sepia
"e;Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."e;Times Literary SupplementHurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and …
Lend Me Your Character
From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to The Kharms Case, the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your …