How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed » (Reprint)

Slavenka Drakulic's work has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Time, and The New York Review of Books among many other publications and is widely translated throughout the world. Her books include the novel Holograms of Fear and her most recent collection of essays, The Balkan Express. She lives in Zagreb.

Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.

New York Times Book Review

A thoughtful, beautifully written collection of essays...blending provocative analysis with the texture of everyday life.