Books by Slavenka Drakulić (5)
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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, she offers a eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwel... continue
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Café Europa Revisited : How to Survive Post-Communism by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europ... continue
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El sabor de un hombre by Slavenka Drakulić ES
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Tereza y José son dos extranjeros en Nueva York. Ella es una joven escritora polaca, y ha ido a estudiar literatura inglesa. Él, un antropólogo brasileño interesado en el canibalismo, prepara un trabajo sobre la experiencia de los jóvenes que sobrevivieron a un accidente de aviación en los Andes alimentándose con los cadáveres de sus compañeros. No tienen nada en común, excepto, quizá, su diferencia. Están solos en una ciudad y en una cultura que les es ajena, y hablan entre sí en una lengua que no les pertenece. Y la extrañeza de este idioma prestado, en el que ninguno de los dos tiene un pas... continue
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S. : A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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Through a series of flashbacks, a Bosnian woman called S. recalls repeated rapes by Serbian soldiers in the "women's room" of a prison camp in Bosnia and the subsequent birth of a child who is unwanted, "one without a country, a name, a father, or a language."--Jacket.
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly : War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić EN
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"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me—or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the trials, as well as on other sources, Drakulic portrays some of the individuals accused of murder, rape, torture, ordering executions, and more during one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe in the twentieth century, including former Serbian president Slobodan Miloševic; Radislav Krstic, the first to be s... continue