Museum of Unconditional Surrender

"THE MUSEUM OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER is a strew of...factlets, a Hansel-and-Gretel trail of crumbs into the witch's forest of our time. Seemingly disjointed and sometimes forced, they assemble a universal--the human displacements of Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, East Timor, Chechnya--in strikingly individual terms. Ugresic's stream-of-consciousness exile in Berlin gives us not the gory amputation of refugee flight but arrival's grayer course of tissue-rejection....MUSEUM is a precious portrait of exile as internal displacement....[Ugresic] must be numbered among what Jacques Maritain called the dreamers of what is true; she draws us into the dream....Like entrails for the ancient Greeks, the inspired particularities of MUSEUM have a suggestion of prophecy."Ugresic, Dubravka is the author of 'Museum of Unconditional Surrender ' with ISBN 9780811214933 and ISBN 0811214931.