Slavenka Drakulic, Author . Viking $22.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-670-03332-4
What causes people to participate in genocide? Respected Croatian journalist Drakulic (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
) set out to explore the psyches of the people who turned her former country, Yugoslavia, into a killing field in the...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-393-03496-7
In 18 short, spontaneous, lyrical dispatches from the former Yugoslavia, Croatian journalist Drakulic ( How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed ) conveys the horror of war and its shattering impact on the lives of ordinary people. Written between
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author W. W. Norton & Company $20 (188p) ISBN 978-0-393-03477-6
Drakulic, a Croatian feminist who may be best known here for her essays ( The Balkan Express ; How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed ), trains her formidable intelligence on a daring, worthy theme: the reconciliation of female sexuality with...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-04012-8
Drakulic (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed) notes that Eastern Europeans are so anxious to become like their Western counterparts that every city and town has a Cafe Europa that is a pale imitation of similar establishments in Paris and...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author, Christina P. Zoric, Translator Penguin Books $10.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-026622-1
The cultural vertigo that Drakulic chronicles in her stylish essays on post-communist Eastern Europe (Cafe Europa, etc.) also permeates this slim tale of obsessive sex and cannibalism, which unfolds against the unlikely backdrop of New York...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Translator , trans. from the Croatian by Christina P. Zoric. Penguin $13 (162p) ISBN 978-0-14-311415-4
In this carefully honed portrait that reads like a biography, Croatian author Drakulic (Café Europa
) distills Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's life into one consistent theme: pain. From her bout of polio at age six to the streetcar...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author, Marko Ivic, Translator Viking Books $22.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-670-89097-2
S. lies in the Karolinska Hospital in Sweden, where she has just given birth to a baby boy. She refuses to nurse him. Maj, in the next bed, is worried and shocked, but she is not aware of the trauma in which the baby was conceived. It is March of...
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Slavenka Drakulic, Author, Ellen Elias-Bursac, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-393-03107-2
In her first novel to be translated into English, a Croatian journalist and frequent contributor to the Nation offers a deceptively simple plot: a women suffering from a life-threatening kidney disease is cured when she receives an organ transplant.
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