The Stranger Next Door: An Anthology from the Other Europe, edited by Richard Swartz, has been published by Northwestern University, USA. It features a story by Slavenka Drakulic Three Monologues About Others.
The Balkans have been so troubled by violence and misunderstanding that we have the verb “balkanize”, meaning to break up into smaller, warring components. While some of the region’s artists and thinkers have invariably fallen into nationalistic tendencies , the twenty-one prominent authors represented here, originally from the erstwhile Yugoslavia and its neighbors Albania and Bulgaria, have chosen to attempt to bridge these divides.
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