The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Ugresic, Dubravka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214931 ISBN 13: 9780811214933

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Synopsis

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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.

Celia Hawkesworth was Senior Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London until her retirement. She has published numerous articles and several books on Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian literature, including a study Ivo Andric: Bridge between East and West, and Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia. She has also published numerous translations, including several works by Ivo Andric and Dubravka Ugresic.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0811214931
• ISBN 13: 9780811214933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256