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Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective, " "The Culture of (Self)Harm, " and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of th...

From one of Europe's premier essayists and cultural critics, a new collection about our troubling political times

A fictional "dictionary" contrasting the barbarism of Balkan politics with the shallowness of America's cultural obsessions.

First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.

Ugresic is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished.'Susan SontagBaba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and eats children. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her legs tucked into a huge furry boot, as a trio of mischievous elderly women who embark on the trip of a lifetime to a hotel spa, and as a villainous flock of ravens, black hens and magpies infected with the H5...

Taking us on travels through Europe, and across to the US, this book offers perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. It also says that while the Eastern bloc is gripped by Western modernization, the West is becoming increasingly Sovietized, with Internet banking, speed dating and automatic supermarket checkouts.

Final novel from one of Europ'e greatest women writers.

According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, " internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writ...