The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

'A writer to cherish' Susan Sontag

'The story of a shattered life can only be told in bits and pieces'

A pink cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener: these are some of the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach, displayed in the Berlin Zoo. As our narrator wanders the city, she recalls the objects and memories, dreams and reflections that make up her life - a photo album, a recipe, a fleeting love affair - as they connect to reveal the fractured reality of being an exile.

Written in the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is a quietly profound, absurdly humorous meditation on displacement, yearning and the weight of the past.

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Fiction in translation, European history

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender is available in Paperback

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender was written by Dubravka UgresiÔc and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender has 256 pages

£9.89