The Ministry of Pain
by Ugresic, Dubravka
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060825847
- ISBN 13
- 9780060825843
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Synopsis
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.
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- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75546
- Title
- The Ministry of Pain
- Author
- Ugresic, Dubravka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060825847
- ISBN 13
- 9780060825843
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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