Telegram: The Ministry of Pain: Reviews

Book Info

978-1-84659-039-9
Fiction
March 2008
13x20 cm
Paperback
£7.99

In this section

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

About the Author

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

Reviews

'Urgresic builds her place of art out of the blood-soaked debris of politics.'
Independent

'A brave, accomplished, cultured novel, sombre and witty ... This is Ugresic at her best.'
Guardian

'Like Nabakov, Ugresic affirms our ability to remember as a source for saving our moral and compassionate identity.'
The Washington Post

'Her work is unflinching and provocative ... This is a disturbing read that should have you in its thrall.'
The Times

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Excerpts

I don't remember when I first noticed it. I'd be standing at a tram stop waiting for a tram, staring at the map of the city in the glass case, at the colour-coded bus and tram routes that I didn't understand and that were of little or no interest to me at the time, standing there without a thought in the world when suddenly, out of the blue, I'd be overcome by a desire to bash my head into the glass and do myself harm.