by Dubravka Ugresic (Author), Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator), David Williams (Translator)
First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.
Author Biography
Dubravka Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav Wars. She now resides in the Netherlands. In 2016, she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work.
Ellen Elias-Bursac is a translator of South Slavic literature. Her accolades include the 2006 National Translation Award for her translation of David Albahari's novel
Götz and Meyer. She is currently the Vice President of the American Literary Translators Association.
David Williams did his doctoral research on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a "literature of the Eastern European ruins." He is the author of
Writing Postcommunism, and translated Ugresic's
Europe in Sepia and
Karaoke Culture.
Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: April 17, 2018
