Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulic - ISBN: 9780349107295
Paperback
East meets West: Europe’s divided heart, a journey through past and present.

Café Europa

Life After Communism

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    4 December 1996

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Summary

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 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 we, the Eastern Europeans, live in another time zone. We live in the twentieth century, but at the same time we in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349107295
ISBN-10:0349107297
Author:Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:4 December 1996
Weight:160g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

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

About The Author

Slavenka Drakulic

Slavenka Drakulic was born in Croatia in 1949. She 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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