With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed. Seierstad traveled extensively through Serbia between 1999 and 2004, following the lives of people from across the political spectrum. Her moving and perceptive account follows nationalists, Titoists, Yugonostalgics, rock stars, fugitives, and poets. Seierstad brings her acclaimed attention to detail to bear on the lives of those whom she encounters in With Their Backs to the World, as she creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation made up of so many different-and often conflicting-hopes, dreams, and points of view.
Author: Asne Seierstad
Paperback: 352 pages
Company: Basic Books (2006-11-06)
ISBN: 0465076025
List Price: $15.00
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The Last Window-Giraffe
This book is about the madness of everyday life under a dictatorship. It shifts in theme and time, testing the borderlines of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, history and autobiography – all in the unassuming guise of a child’s ABC.
The Last Window–Giraffe is a playful and personal journey through the political unrest of the seventies and eighties. It was inspired by a Hungarian children’s dictionary, entitled Window–Giraffe, which explained the whole world in simple terms; a world where everything was in order and all problems were easily solved. Popular across Europe for the best part of a decade, The Last Window–Giraffe is a politically infused rendition of the original: quirky, astute and powerful. Péter Zilahy draws on his travels around the ‘soft dictatorships’ of Eastern Europe, offering his acerbic observations on the often bizarre spectacle. In one instance he describes the carnival-like protests against the Milosevic regime in Belgrade simply and humorously. This reflects, like the format of the book, the manner in which the regime treat their people like children.
Filled with his own striking photographs, Zilahy gives fascinating insight into a whole other universe behind the Iron Curtain. The Last Window–Giraffe is one of the most unusual, beguiling books you will ever read.
(04/23/2008)
Author: Peter Zilahy
Hardcover: 130 pages
Company: Anthem Press (2008-03-17) (2008-04-01)
ISBN: 1843312840
List Price: $22.95
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