Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic

Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic

Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things - of sounds, looks and images. In this brilliant work of political reportage filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall, there is a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that the Eastern Europeans live in another time zone. They live in the twentieth century, but at the same time they inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging.

Slavenka Drakulic is a writer of great sensitivity, intelligence and grace* ALICE WALKER *
A formidable writer. * SUNDAY TIMES *
Her writing has the spare poetry of Marguerite Duras. * GUARDIAN *
Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world. * GLORIA STEINEM *

Slavenka Drakulic was born in Croatia in 1949, is a writer and journalist whose two novels and three non-fiction books have been translated into major European languages. She contributes to The New Republic, La Stampa, Dagens Nyheter, Frankfurter Runschau and the Observer.

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ISBN 13	9780349107295
ISBN 10	0349107297
Title	Cafe Europa
Author	Slavenka Drakulic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1996-10-10
Number of pages	224
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