The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Paperback)

from streamsong

"Rilke once said that the story of a shattered life can only be told in bits and pieces ..." p107 The novel begins with a description of the contents of a stomach of a walrus which died in the Berlin zoo; unimaginable bits of random, plastic modern life, which, no matter how one may try to fit to...

from amerynth

How can you not love a book that begins like "The Museum of Unconditional Surrender?" It starts off inventorying the contents of the stomach of a dead Berlin Zoo walrus... a baby's shoe, keys, lollypops sticks, a knife... a list of wholly separate things but linked together by a common thread of ...

from JimElkins

I slowed, reading this, and finally stopped. As Susan Sontag says (it's so annoying, really, finding myself so often following in the history of her reading, and agreeing with her judgments), the book has "high-velocity reflections," and "speaks for many people." That's a generous way of pointing...

from kvanuska

As is the case with Ugresic's most recent collection of essays, Nobody's Home, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender assembles the life of an exile through the artifacts leftover from her former life -- from yellowed photographs to flower-covered notebooks, a snow globe, or an apple rose. Each ar...

from kvanuska

As is the case with Ugresic's most recent collection of essays, Nobody's Home, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender assembles the life of an exile through the artifacts leftover from her former life -- from yellowed photographs to flower-covered notebooks, a snow globe, or an apple rose. Each ar...