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Café Europa: Life After Communism
Slavenka Drakulic
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Description for Café Europa: Life After Communism
Paperback. This work explores the divisions that still exist in contemporary Europe. It focuses on Eastern Europe and the attitudes and cultural identity of Eastern Europeans, a nation of people still living in the past. Budapest, Tirane, Warsaw and Zagreb are featured. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 2AG; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349107295
SKU
V9780349107295
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About Slavenka Drakulic
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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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
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