The Ministry of Pain

Name: The Ministry of Pain
Author: Dubravka Ugresic

by Dubravka Ugresic

Dark comedy about a Balkan immigrant tutor and her neurotic Croatian students

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Dubravka Ugresic

Croatian author and essayist who became one of the most important voices of Eastern European post-communist literature after her exile from Croatia. The Culture of Lies and The Ministry of Pain address cultural memory and displacement.

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