Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the Ministry. Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their Yugonostalgia in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class--and pulls her dangerously close to another--which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.

--The Independent

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 02/27/2007
ISBN: 9780060825850
Pages: 257
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.36w x 0.65d

Review Citations: New York Times 03/25/2007 pg. 24