Told through different narrators (first and third person, male and female points of view, different generations), though always with a feminist sensibility, the stories weave autobiographical and fictional elements in their depiction of intimate moments, following the memories, digressions and associations that arise from a fragrance, a touch of cloth, a photograph. Unflinching and meticulous, Drakulić puts words to thoughts and feelings usually unspoken – deemed either too frivolous or too painful – an internal play-by-play of the gradual disappearance of a person. Invisible Woman and Other Stories is an articulation of intimate experience, a manifest of irreversible loss and the internal rebellion against the injustices of ageing. Translated, from the Croatian, by Jacob Agee and Christina Pribichevich Zori Distributed in association with The Irish Pages Press — “Invisible Woman is a book for all sentient women.” Andrea Zlatar Violić “Beautiful, sad and so very true. ” Ingrid Šafranek “This book simply cannot be read indifferently. Shocking, without an ounce of banality or sentimentality. ” Anera Ryznar “Slavenka Drakulić’s words are like a surgical knife.” Melania Mazzucco, La Repubblica — desktop/tab About The Author Slavenka Drakulić, born in Croatia (former Yugoslavia) in 1949, is a journalist and a writer whose books have been translated into many languages. Her best-known book in the USA and UK is How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed. Her last collection of essays, Café Europa Revisted: How to Survive Post-Communism, was published by Penguin Random House in 2021. In the USA, she has published eight non-fiction books and five novels. The 2010 feature films As If I Am Not There (directed by Juanita Wilson, written by Eliseo Altunaga) was based on her novel S. – A Novel About the Balkans. slavenkadrakulic.com mobile About The Author Slavenka Drakulić, born in Croatia (former Yugoslavia) in 1949, is a journalist and a writer whose books have been translated into many languages. Her best-known book in the USA and UK is How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed. Her last collection of essays, Café Europa Revisted: How to Survive Post-Communism, was published by Penguin Random House in 2021. In the USA, she has published eight non-fiction books and five novels. The 2010 feature films As If I Am Not There (directed by Juanita Wilson, written by Eliseo Altunaga) was based on her novel S. – A Novel About the Balkans. slavenkadrakulic.com
