Slavenka Drakulić

As if I am Not There

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S. is a teacher in a Bosnian village: twenty-nine, gentle, clever and pretty, with a love affair and an apartment of her own. Until one spring day a young Serb soldier walks uninvited into her kitchen and tells her to pack a bag, and her life is interrupted. As the sky turns black with smoke behind her, S. enters a new world, where peace is a fairytale and there are no homes but only camps: transit camp, reception camp, labour camp, death camp.

In tender, unsparing detail Slavenka Drakulić documents S.'s struggle to cling to her humanity, and to seek and eventually find a reason for hope amidst the tragedy of the Balkan conflict.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Slavenka Drakulić, born in Croatia in 1949, is a writer and journalist whose four previous novels (The Taste of a Man, Holograms of Fear, Marble Skin and Frida's Bed) and four non-fiction books (How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, Balkan Express, Café Europa and They Would Never Hurt a Fly) have been translated into many major European languages. She contributes to The New Republic, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Rundschau and the Observer and her writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world. She writes both in Croatian and English.

Preis: CHF 23.20
Sprache: Englisch (aus dem Kroatischen von Marko Ivić)
Art: Broschiertes Buch
Erschienen: 2014 (1999)
Verlag: Abacus
ISBN: 978-0-349-11262-6
Masse: 216 S.

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