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The Ministry of Pain

The Ministry of Pain

Ugresic, Dubravka

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 0060825855
ISBN13: 9780060825850
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Feb 27 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

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, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.

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