Dubravka Ugresic

The Ministry of Pain

Buch

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the Ministry. Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their Yugonostalgia in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-082585-0
EAN: 9780060825850
Produktnummer: 2457358
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Gattung: Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.8 cm 261 g
Gewicht: 261

Über den Autor

An acclaimed novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugresic is a native of the former Yugoslavia who left her homeland in 1993 for political reasons. She now lives in Amsterdam.