Café Europa revisited has just been published in Italian by Keller Edizione. Ritorno al Caffè Europa: Come sopravvivere al post-comunismo was translated by Giulia Marich.…
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Category: Café Europa: Life After Communism
The Berlin Wall is gone, but there is still a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. Little bits—or intimations—of the West are gradually making their way east: boutiques carrying Levis and tiny food shops called “Supermarket” are multiplying on main boulevards.
Slavenka Drakulić was a guest at Remembering Yugoslavia, “the show exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists”, hosted by Peter Korchnak. They…
Recently Slavenka Drakulić held a virtual lecture Europe after the collapse of communism at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (@ UC…
Earlier this year, Slavenka Drakulić published Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism (Penguin Random House), a collection of essays on changes that happened in Eastern Europe thirty…
In the article The Best Booky by Destination, Lonely Planet recommends reading CAFE EUROPA: LIFE AFTER COMMUNISM, when travelling to Croatia! To quote Lonely Planet Writer…
Rick Steves’ tourist guide to Europe recommends travellers to read books from the country of their travel. The choosen books from Croatia, among others for…
Lately, 2 blogs have enlisted titles by Slavenka Drakulić. The Calvert Journal- a Guide to the new east has recommended A Guided Tour Through the Museum…
Recently a reader from Teheran informed Drakulic that there are two of her books tranlated into Farsi – the fact previously unknown to the author.…