The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
$22.55
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
An unflinching, absurdly funny portrait of life in exile by one of the greatest Yugoslav writers.
“In the end life is reduced to a heap of random, unconnected details. It could have been like this or like that, it’s absolutely immaterial.”
A pink cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener – these are some of the contents of Roland the Walrus’ stomach, displayed by his pool in Berlin Zoo. These objects, like the reflections, dreams and diary entries that make up t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241805688 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241805686 |
| Author: | Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Dubravka Ugrešic is a writer to be followed. A writer to cherish – Susan Sontag
The philosopher of evil and exile, and the storyteller of many shattered lives – Charles Simic
She wrote in a deeply melancholy vein as well as with adroit comic wit… an unusual mixture of Orwellian stringency and madcap lightness – Marina Warner
About The Author
Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic was born in 1949 in the former Yugoslavia and lived in Amsterdam. The author of several novels and volumes of essays that have been translated into over thirty languages, she was the winner of several major literary prizes including the 1998 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was shortlisted for her entire body of work for The Man Booker International Prize 2009. She died in 2023.
Celia Hawkesworth translates from the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Among her award-winning translations are works by Dubravka Ugresic, Ivo Andric and Dasa Drndic.
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