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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is one of Dubravka Ugresic's most famous novels, a poignant tale of exile in which exile becomes a convenient lens through which to view one's own biography and country. An intellectual of the highest calibre, Dubravka Ugresic constructs a collage novel that begins in a Berlin zoo and ends in a Berlin fitness centre. But between these points, as if in a family photo album, faces appear and disappear, a painful longing for the homeland grows, bombs of a new war explode, and the sad voice of an old mother sounds in the answering machine, whose features the lyrical heroine increasingly recognises in herself over the years.