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This book is special because it includes essays on war written by Slavenka Drakulic from 1991 to the present day, the time of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. These texts will evoke a lot of emotions and make you think about why, having achieved such a huge technological and scientific progress, we cannot eradicate war and killing from our lives.
Slavenka Drakulic's essays describe a series of military situations seen from the "frog's" perspective, that is, from the point of view of an ordinary person. The characters in the book are refugees trying to settle down in a foreign country where they are not welcome; mothers broken by the expectation of sons who may never return; raped women who refuse to remain silent; circumstances that turn ordinary people into cruel criminals; the media and their role in understanding military events.
Slavenka Drakulic is a Croatian journalist and writer, born in Rijeka.
Studied literature and sociology at the University of Zagreb. She has written books in Croatian and English. She lives in Croatia and Sweden.
Slavenka Drakulic's best-known essay books describing everyday life under socialism, the war in the former Yugoslavia and Europe are How We Survived, They Wouldn't Hurt a Fly, Café Europe, The Balkan Express, Café Europe Again, and War Is the Same Everywhere.
Slavenka Drakulic's literary works - Holograms of Fear, Marble Skin, As If I Am Not There, Divine Hunger, Frida, or About Pain, The Accused, Dora and the Minotaur, Mileva Einstein: The Theory of Longing - are dedicated to the female body, illnesses and traumas.
