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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
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80%
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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."
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Feb 17th, 2002
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 4.92in - 0.72in - 0.61lb
- EAN: 9780811214933
- Categories: • Literary
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I am shocked & sad to hear of the passing of the wonderful Dubravka Ugrešić. I never met her but I reviewed her novel, ‘The Museum of Unconditional Surrender’, for the FT back in the day. What a spirited, committed writer she was. So fearless, so varied, so funny, so human. 🙏 https://t.co/yIfrnMg5xq
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Dubravka Ugrešić gone too soon. RIP. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender remains an astounding work of literary style with it’s play on time and memory, and so unique for a war novel 🥀🖤
What people are saying
Fiction & non-fiction @FaberBooks, essays @Zer0Books, poetry @SmokestackBooks #PoetrySalzburg @saltpublishing • Director @FaberAcademy • Editor #14magazine
I am shocked & sad to hear of the passing of the wonderful Dubravka Ugrešić. I never met her but I reviewed her novel, ‘The Museum of Unconditional Surrender’, for the FT back in the day. What a spirited, committed writer she was. So fearless, so varied, so funny, so human. 🙏 https://t.co/yIfrnMg5xq