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Caf Europa: Life After Communism

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Caf Europa: Life After Communism

Contributors:

By (Author) Slavenka Drakulic

ISBN:

9780349107295

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Abacus

Publication Date:

4th December 1996

UK Publication Date:

10th October 1996

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

891.8235

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

224

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

160g

Description

Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper What divides us today To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that we, the Eastern Europeans, live in another time zone. We live in the twentieth century, but at the same time we inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging, and the fact that most people are lying and cheating or that they have the habit of blaming others for every failure...'

An intimate tour of life on the streets of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw and Zagreb, as those cities continue to acclimatise to the post-Communist thaw, Caf Europa does not provide easy solutions or furnish political pallatives. Rather as a Croatian with a viewpoint of ever-widening relevance, the value of Slavenka Drakulic's wry and humane observations lie in the emotional force of their honesty and the clarity of their insight.....

Reviews

'Slavenka Drakulic is a writer of great sensitivity, intelligence and grace.' ALICE WALKER 'A formidable writer.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Her writing has the spare poetry of Marguerite Duras.' GUARDIAN 'Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.' GLORIA STEINEM

Author Bio

Slavenka Drakulic was born in Croatia in 1949, is a writer and journalist whose two novels and three non-fiction books have been translated into major European languages. She contributes to The New Republic, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Runschau and the Observer.

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