Description
In a voice that is at once incisive and intimate, this critically acclaimed experimental novel follows a restless narrator moving through memory, art, and the aftershocks of political upheaval. As personal histories collide with public narratives, the book explores what it means to “surrender” unconditionally—to regimes, to ideologies, and ultimately to the complicated demands of survival. Through shifting perspectives and sharply observed cultural detail, it interrogates exile, identity, and the uneasy relationship between museums of the past and the living present. Ugrešić’s distinctive style—literary, fragmentary, and boldly reflective—turns the act of looking into a form of moral inquiry, inviting readers to consider how we rebuild ourselves when the world that shaped us has already fallen apart.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2002
256 pages
ISBN: 9780811214933
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published Aug 6, 2026
ISBN: 9780241805688
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Translation
From: hrv
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