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Ugrešić connects Croatian and Yugoslav experience with an emigrant’s perspective. Her prose approaches literature through memory, communal disintegration and ambiguous belonging. Drndić juxtaposes personal archives with records of European violence; Perišić answers with a more comic story of media and war. Nović’s Girl at War is an English-language diasporic novel, not a Croatian translation. For a subversive, mythic view of ageing, choose Baba Yaga Laid an Egg.
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Scattered objects, memories and images come together as an account of life in exile.
Original title: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje
New Directions · 2002
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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A contemporary retelling of the Baba Yaga myth connects ageing, female identity and the power of storytelling.
Original title: Baba Jaga je snijela jaje
Canongate · 2010
Translated by Celia Hawkesworth, Ellen Elias-Bursać i Mark Thompson
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An ageing intellectual revisits his personal archive, confronting illness and memories of European violence.
A journalist sends his cousin to Iraq while struggling with professional and personal crises in Croatia.
Original title: Naš čovjek na terenu
Ana returns from America to Croatia, confronting adulthood with her wartime childhood.
Haya Tedeschi’s search for her abducted son leads through records of Nazi crimes and memories of northern Italy.
Original title: Sonnenschein
Andreas Ban revisits suppressed crimes and victims’ lives, setting personal remembrance against convenient forgetting.
Two entrepreneurs reopen a dormant turbine factory, reviving hopes and old conflicts in a depressed town.
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