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The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugre?ic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of e...

PERENNIAL POSSIBLE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Ugresic is always in the mix for the Nobel Prize—it's just a matter of time. CULT FAVORITE: The novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" was made into a movie in Croatia and truly launched Ugresic's career. AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS: After Ugresic left Dalkey Archive for Open Letter, this book has languished and was one of the only works of her fiction that wasn't readily available.

A blistering, laugh out loud takedown of every aspect of the book industry-from editors to agents to booksellers to best-selling celebs

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

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...

Splendidly ambitious . . . A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections. In her indignation and in her sorrow Ugresic speaks for many people, many experiences. She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag

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 ...