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LITERARY ESSAYS
SEPTEMBER 2007
13X20 CM
PAPERBACK
200PP £9.99
ISBN: 1846590191

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• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpt
• Reviews

About the Author

Dubravka Ugresic has been compared favourably with writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Milan Kundera and Virginia Woolf, and has been awarded many prizes. She entered self-imposed exile when Croatia's late president, Franjo Tudjman, proclaimed Croatia to be 'paradise on earth' in the early 1990s.

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Nobody's Home

Dubravka Ugresic

Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac

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A whole world seems to orbit within Nobody's Home. It's a world that looks familiar but strange.

Dubravka Ugresic takes us on her whirligig travels through Europe, and across to the US, offering her insightful and unique perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. She wryly points out 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.

And she doesn't stop there. She's got something to say about everything from flea markets and souvenirs to celebrity and slavery, in this kaleidoscopic tour de force.

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'One of the ten greatest writers you've never heard of.'

The Guardian

'Her work is unflinching and provocative.'

The Times

'A hyperlinked transborder ride that is a workout for the brain, and well worth the trip.'

Pulp.net

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