The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić
"The Museum of Unconditional Surrender" is a poignant and surreal narrative that explores the dislocation and fragmentation experienced by an unnamed narrator who has been exiled from her homeland, former Yugoslavia. The novel is presented as a collection of fragments, including letters, diary entries, and observations, which together portray a deep longing for a lost homeland and an exploration of memory, identity, and the power of art. The story is centered around a photograph of a walrus in a Berlin zoo, which serves as a metaphor for the narrator's own feelings of displacement and alienation.
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- Published
- 1997
- Nationality
- Croatian
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- Pages
- 256
- Original Language
- Croatian
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- Alternate Titles
- - Doba Kože
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