An unusual beautifully written East European novel in the tradition of Kundera and Borges. This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world group of characters living in Berlin and Lisbon. Even though this is a novel with little plot, there is something extremely compelling and memorable about Ugresic's beautifully crafted writing. She convincingly brings to life a world and characters preoccupied by questions of exile, nationalism, angels, parables, the Berlin zoo, the layers of meaning in 1's past and future frozen by the camera. Underpinned by a calm note of tragedy, The museum of unconditional Surrender is a beautifully written novel, both bitter and funny in tone.
- ISBN10 0811214214
- ISBN13 9780811214216
- Publish Date 17 October 1999 (first published 14 September 1998)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 16 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English