Cafe Europa: Life After Communism - Softcover

Drakulic, Slavenka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140277722 ISBN 13: 9780140277722

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

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From the Back Cover:

Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things - of sounds, looks and images. In this brilliant work of political reportage filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall, there is a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that the Eastern Europeans live in another time zone. They live in the twentieth century, but at the same time they inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging.

About the Author:

Slavenka Drakulic was born in Croatia in 1949. The author of several works of nonfiction and novels, she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, and numerous publications around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0140277722
• ISBN 13: 9780140277722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224