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The Age of Skin

The Age of Skin

Ugresic, Dubravka
Elias-Bursac, Ellen

Paperback

Letters & EssaysEastern European HistoryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1948830221
ISBN13: 9781948830225
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

A New York Times Editors' Choice

These essays are written on the skin of the times. Dubravka Ugresic, winner of the Neustadt International Prize and one of Europe's most influential writers, with biting humor and a multitude of cultural references--from La La Land and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, to tattoos and body modification, World Cup chants, and the preservation of Lenin's corpse--takes on the dreams, hopes, and fears of modern life. The collapse of Yugoslavia, and the author's subsequent exile from Croatia, leads to reflections on nationalism and the intertwining of crime and politics. Ugresic writes at eye level, from a human perspective, in portraits of people from the former Eastern Bloc, who work as cleaners in the Netherlands or start underground shops with products from their country of origin.

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