{"title":"Books by Slavenka Drakulic","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780143134176","title":"Café Europa Revisited","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of \u003ci\u003eCafe Europa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism\u003c\/i\u003e, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTotalitarianism did not die overnight and democracy did not completely transform Eastern European societies. Looking closely at artefacts and day to day life, from the health insurance cards to national monuments, and popular films to cultural habits, alongside pieces of growing nationalism and Brexit, these pieces of political reportage dive into the reality of a Europe still deeply divided.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225025786229,"sku":"9780143134176","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780143134176_73306410-6602-4080-85b2-769a7effc565.jpg?v=1786010980"},{"product_id":"9780349117751","title":"They Would Never Hurt A Fly","description":"Slavenka Drakulic attended the Serbian war crimes trial in the Hague. This important book is about how ordinary people commit terrible crimes in wartime. With extraordinary story-telling skill Drakulic draws us in to this difficult subject. We cannot turn away from her subject matter because her writing is so engaging, lively and compelling. From the monstrous Slobodan Milosevich and his evil Lady Macbeth of a wife to humble Serb soldiers who claim they were 'just obeying orders', Drakulic brilliantly enters the minds of the killers. There are also great stories of bravery and survival, both from those who helped Bosnians escape from the Serbs and from those who risked their lives to help them.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56286339957109,"sku":"9780349117751","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349117751_9559e0cc-4c9c-4fc5-b5b1-251730ecbca4.jpg?v=1786013867"},{"product_id":"9780349107295","title":"Café Europa","description":"\u003cp\u003eEurope 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 inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging, and the fact that most people are lying and cheating or that they have the habit of blaming others for every failure...'\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate tour of life on the streets of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw and Zagreb, as those cities continue to acclimatise to the post-Communist thaw, Café Europa does not provide easy solutions or furnish political pallatives. Rather as a Croatian with a viewpoint of ever-widening relevance, the value of Slavenka Drakulic's wry and humane observations lie in the emotional force of their honesty and the clarity of their insight.....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311710777717,"sku":"9780349107295","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349107295_0e4a1e6b-c3f8-40b5-b4b1-ab1450898f05.jpg?v=1786013730"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-slavenka-drakulic.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}