Slavenka Drakulic - Böcker

I Gläntas hemsökta nummer skriver Maria Stepanova om det förändrade politiska landskapet efter 2014 och ett Ryssland som hemsöks av Sovjet. Slavenka Drakulic ser bilder från kriget i forna Jugoslavien gå igen i rapporteringen från Butja. Ilya Kami...

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Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We can...

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Set in 1992 during the height of the Bosnian war, "S".--now in paperback--reveals one of the most gruesome aspects of war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. Through a series of flashbacks, S., a Bosnian woman, r...

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An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memo...

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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 un...

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In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Ser...

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This is a story of hope and survival amidst the Balkan tragedy. S., a teacher in a Bosnian village, is 29 when war breaks out. One day a young Serbian soldier walks into her kitchen and tells her to pack her bag. She is taken to a concentration ca...

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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 un...

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Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We can...

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One autumn in New York, a young Polish poet, studying literature, and a Brazilian anthropologist researching a new book, meet, fall in love and move into a tiny apartment together. Tereza has a lover waiting for her in Poland, Jose a wife and chil...

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Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters - a dog, an underdog, and a cat - offer the reader narratives that reflect ...

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Coyoacán nahe Mexiko City, ein früher Morgen im Juli 1954: Die 47-jährige Frida Kahlo liegt nach einer unruhigen Nacht in ihrem Bett. Sie spürt den Tod, überlässt sich aber nicht dem Schicksal, das ihr ein Leben lang übel mitgespielt hat. Die Ents...

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»Nach Picasso nur Gott.« Dora Maar Picasso und seine Musen: Slavenka Drakuli erzählt die Geschichte von Dora Maar, einer gefeierten Fotografin aus dem Kreise der Surrealisten, und ihrem von großer Liebe und großem Leid gekennzeichneten Verhältnis ...

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Pablo Picasso, najve?i slikar dvadesetog stolje?a, i Dora Maar, njegova muza, fotografkinja, umjetnica, ?ena na pla?i i ?ena koja pla?e ? kakav je bio njihov ljubavni odnos u burnim godinama od predve?erja Drugoga svjetskoga rata do njegova kraja,...

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Kada u osvit Prvoga svjetskoga rata, tek ?to je sa sinovima do?la u Berlin, gdje je njezin suprug, najslavniji znanstvenik dvadesetog stolje?a Albert Einstein upravo dobio posao, primi pismo s Uvjetima o njihovu me?usobnom ?ivotu, Milevi Einstein ...

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Za?to su danas, u suvremenom dru?tvu koje ru?i sve tabue, samo starost i starenje teme o kojima je gotovo zabranjeno govoriti? Postajemo li sa staro??u nevidljivi, ?to se doga?a s na?im tijelima, s na?im odnosom prema drugima i, jo? va?nije, odnos...

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Kada je 1984. objavljena u kultnoj biblioteci &td, prva knjiga Slavenke Drakuli?¿ Smrtni grijesi feminizma ¿izazvala je buru u javnosti, a ta se bura, za divno ?udo, nije sti?ala do dana dana?njeg. Ponovno objavljivanje ovih tekstova koji su...

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Invisible Woman and Other Stories takes us on an intimate journey of ageing, from the shock of catching a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror as others see us to the actual slipping away of the self. The stories speak of reckonings: with the illnes...

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People being transported to slave markets. Women become victims of barbaric rape. Men are taken to unknown destinations. Helpless and abandoned. From somewhere, sounds of gunfire are heard. The smell of death permeates the novel. Characters in the...

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