Ivana Bodrozic
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The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.
Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodroić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for...
Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodroić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for...
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The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders...
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Lucija opens her eyes to find that she is in a hospital, paralyzed and incapable of speech. Though she is immobile, her mind reels, memories of the past a salve and a burden. She sifts through her life: a family split apart by the Croatian War of Independence, a difficult and overbearing mother, a strained relationship with a lover who struggles to feel at home in his own body. Lucija's mother and lover-the other two narrators in the novel-aren't...