The Museum of Unconditional Surrender -- by the renowned
Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic -- begins in the Berlin Zoo,
with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside
his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects -- a
cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc. --
like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random
at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically.
Written in a variety of literary forms, The Museum of
Unconditional Surrender captures the shattered world of a life in
exile. Some chapters re-create the daily journal of the narrator's
lonely and alienated mother, who shops at the improvised
flea-markets in town and longs for her children; another is a
dream-like narrative in which a circle of women friends are visited
by an angel. There are reflections and accounts of the Holocaust
and the Yugoslav Civil War; portraits of European artists; a recipe
for Caraway Soup; a moving story of a romantic encounter the
narrator has in Lisbon; descriptions of family photographs;
memories of the small town in which Ugresic was raised. Addressing
the themes of art and history, aging and loss, The Museum is a
haunting and an extremely original novel.
General
| Imprint: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 2007 |
| First published: |
February 2002 |
| Authors: |
Dubravka Ugre si c
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 125 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Volumes: |
2 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8112-1493-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-8112-1493-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780811214933 |
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