Name: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
ISBN: 9780811214933

Dubravka Ugrešić

The heroine of this novel is a middle-aged Croatian and the novel is composed of fragments. She reflects on exile, life in Berlin, there's a recipe for caraway soup and a romantic encounter in Lisbon.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Dana Kraft

I stuck it out and finished this, but I didn't enjoy it at all. I think I understand what the book is about and how the "unique" writing and structure work together, but for me it was boring and almost seemed too contrived.

The early parts of the book about memories, photographs and keepsakes reminded me of when we helped my parents move out of their house of 50 yrs. Then it just got weird in an unsettling way.