"Museum of Unconditional Surrender" is one of Dubravka Ugrešić's most famous novels, a poignant story about emigration, in which exile becomes a convenient lens for looking at one's biography and country. An intellectual of the highest order, Dubravka Ugrešych constructs a novel collage that begins in the Berlin Zoo and ends in a Berlin fitness center. But between these points - as if in a family photo album - faces appear and disappear, a painful longing for the homeland grows, the bombs of a new war explode, and the sad voice of an old mother sounds on the answering machine, whose features the lyrical heroine increasingly recognizes in herself over the years. And together with her, the reader begins to find and remember similar parallels and plots in his biography, suddenly he becomes the hero of his autobiographical novel. Only truly great literature is capable of such an effect.
The publication was made with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb.
Knjiga je objavljena uz financijsku potporu Ministarstva kulture i medija Republike Hrvatske.
The European Union supports the translation and publication of this book under the House of Europe Translation Grant Program.
