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S. : a novel about the Balkans / Slavenka Drakulić ; translated by Marko Ivić.
Van Pelt Library PG1619.14.R34 K3613 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drakulić, Slavenka, 1949-
- Standardized Title:
- Kao da me nema. English
- Language:
- Croatian
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Fiction.
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
- History.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina--History--1992---Fiction.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Refugees.
- Rape--Fiction.
- Rape.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 201 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Translated from Serbo-Croatian (roman).
- Summary:
- Slavenka Drakulic has been hailed as "a perceptive social critic...with a wonderful eye for detail" (The Washington Post). And her novel The Taste of a Man was praised as "stunningly good ... superbly crafted, with a journalist's eye for detail and a poet's feel for emotional truth" (Elle). Drakulic combines the best of both in S., her latest, most haunting novel to date.
- Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child; one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. It is the birth of this child that reminds her of an even more grueling experience--being repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in the "women's room" of a prison camp in Bosnia. Through a series of flashbacks, S. relives the unspeakable crimes she has endured, and in telling her story -- timely, strangely compelling, and ultimately about survival -- depicts the darkest side of human nature during wartime.
- Notes:
- Previously published in English as: As if I am not there. London : Abacus, 1999.
- ISBN:
- 0670890979
- OCLC:
- 42682720
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