The Museum of Unconditional Surrender - Hardcover

Ugresic, Dubravka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811214214 ISBN 13: 9780811214216

Publisher: New Directions, 1999

Synopsis

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world of a group of characters living in Berlin and Lisbon. Ugresic convincingly brings to life a world and characters preoccupied by questions of exile, nationalism, angels, parables, the Berlin zoo, the layers of meaning in one's past and future frozen by the camera. Underpinned by a calm note of tragedy. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is a beautifully written novel, both bitter and funny in tone.

About this title

Book Description

An unusual beautifully written East European novel in the tradition of Kundera and Borges

About the Author

Dubravka Ugresic is the author of several works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Fording the Stream of Consciousness, and three collections of essays, Have a Nice Day, The Culture of Lies, and most recently Thank You for Not Reading. She has received several international prizes for her writing, including the Swiss Charles Veillon European Essay Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and most recently the Premio Feronio-Citta di Fiano. Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, she left her homeland in 1993 for political reasons and currently lives in Amsterdam.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811214214
• ISBN 13: 9780811214216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238