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Author:

Drakulić, Slavenka, 1949- author.

Title:

A guided tour through the museum of communism : fables from a mouse, a parrot, a bear, a cat, a mole, a pig, a dog, and a raven / Slavenka Drakulic.́

Publisher:

V.B.Z.,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

187 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Communism--Europe, Eastern--Fiction.
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Fiction.
Animals--Fiction.
Animals.
Communism.
Post-communism.
Europe, Eastern.
Roman.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Communism--Europe, Eastern--Fiction.
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Fiction.
Animals--Fiction.
Satire.
Satire.
Fiction.
Satire.
Satire.

Contents:

The unusual case of the psychotic raven. A communist with style -- The bear and the princess of light -- The cat-keeper in Warsaw (letter to the state prosecutor) -- The legend of the Berlin Wall -- as presented by a mole -- From Gulag to Goulash: The introduction to Ms. Piggy's Hungarian cookbook -- An interview with the oldest dog in Bucharest -- The unusual case of the psychotic raven.

Summary:

In a collection of eight stories that satirizes communism, each tale is narrated by an animal representing a formerly communist country, with the critter reflecting on the fall of communism.

Series:

Best of Croatian literature ; no.15

ISBN:

9533049278
9789533049274

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1017661798

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)