Slavenka Drakulić - A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism

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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe’s exceptional authors. Called “a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail” by
, Slavenka Drakulić—a native of Croatia—has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In
, she offers a eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwellian send-up of absurdities during the final years of European Communism that showcase this author’s tremendous talent.

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—The New York Times

“Where less sensitive observers might only bemoan the legacy of communism, Drakulić knows her people well and sees the redeeming nature of all their human frailty; for their sake, we should read her book.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“An important and timely book that deserves the widest possible audience.”

—Chicago Tribune

Praise for They Would Never Hurt a Fly

“In this powerful series of reports from The Hague’s international courtroom, Slavenka Drakulić confronts the Yugoslav war’s grand villains and banal perpetrators as she fearlessly contemplates both the individual character of evil and the tragic, chillingly impersonal mechanisms of war. Writing with her hallmark blend of forthrightness, open-eyed irony, and psychological discernment, Drakulić gives us disturbingly intimate vignettes of war criminals who might have been her own (and our) neighbors, even as she illuminates one of our time’s most daunting and urgent questions: How ordinary men and women turn, and are turned, into genocidal killers. An important and a necessary book.”

—Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation and After Such Knowledge

“In the first in-depth look at the war crimes trials in The Hague, Slavenka Drakulić has written a deeply personal and lucid account. She brings to life the men who destroyed Yugoslavia—mediocre people who committed extraordinary crimes.”

—Laura Silber, coauthor of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation

“Lucidly written… a devastating book… [Drakulić’s] direct, personal style does justice to the weight and grimness of these stories.”

—The Guardian (London)

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Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England

First published in Penguin Books 2011

Copyright © Slavenka Drakulić, 2011

All rights reserved

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint “A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism,” “The Cat-Keeper in Warsaw” and “An Interview with the Oldest Dog in Bucharest” from Two Underdogs and a Cat by Slavenka Drakulić. Copyright © Slavenka Drakulić, 2009.

PUBLISHERʹS NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Drakulić, Slavenka, 1949-

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 Drakulić. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-50252-5

1. Communism—Europe, Eastern—Fiction. 2. Post-Communism—Europe, Eastern—

Fiction. 3. Animals—Fiction. 4. Satire. I. Title.

PS3554.R2375G85 2011

813’.54—dc22 2010038778

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