Caf Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism Drakulic Slavenka
Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New YorkerAn evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of…
Specifikacia Caf Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism Drakulic Slavenka
Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New YorkerAn evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism.An 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 Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection.Totalitarianism did not die overnight and democracy did not completely transform Eastern European