Never get lost in translation again! Ideal for the vacation or business traveler, the handy, pocket-size "Harrap's Croatian Phrasebook" covers every topic - from trains, planes, and automobiles, to hotels, health, and restaurants. You get instant access to thousands of essential words and phrases, o[...]
Suitable for self-study or class use, this title provides an approach to written and spoken Serbian. It enables students to communicate confidently across a range of everyday situations. Its key features include: a range of exercises to build confidence, grammar notes, and more. It also includes two[...]
Written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, this title provides a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Croatian. It enables those who follow it to communicate confidently and effectively in Croatian in a range of everyday situations. It contains the book and 120 minutes of au[...]
Offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Serbian. This book features: exercises to help build confidence; grammar notes; an introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet; and, Serbian-English and English-Serbian glossaries, grammar summary and translations of main texts. It helps enable you to c[...]
Published as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from the front lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to U.N. peacekeepers, the magic power of laminated accreditation - all of the folly and the horror of that time [...]
In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses literally to everyone that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even [...]
Not since Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Ferdinand Bardamu has a character appeared in fiction with such a bitter, ironic, hysterically ranting voice. Tonka - a woman spending the night watching TV before leaving her husband for a younger man - rails against all of society, from attacks on America to comp[...]
These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In "The Silk, the Shears, "Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her lif[...]