Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Museum of Unconditional SurrenderCondition: NewISBN-10: 0811214931EAN: 9780811214933ISBN: 9780811214933Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/17/2002Description: 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. In the words of the Times Literary Supplement, "it is vivid in its denunciation of destructive forces and in its evocation of what is at stake."Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 206mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 280gAuthor: Dubravka UgresicTranslator: Celia HawkesworthContributor: Celia Hawkesworth (Translated by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Title: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
ISBN-10: 0811214931
EAN: 9780811214933
ISBN: 9780811214933
Release Date: 02/17/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Celia Hawkesworth
Contributor: Celia Hawkesworth (Translated by)
Book Title: Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 2002
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Item Height: 0.7 in
Features: Reprint
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Author: Dubravka Ugresic
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
