“Lucidly written… a devastating book… [Drakulić’s] direct, personal style does justice to the weight and grimness of these stories.”
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First published in Penguin Books 2011
Copyright © Slavenka Drakulić, 2011
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint “A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism,” “The Cat-Keeper in Warsaw” and “An Interview with the Oldest Dog in Bucharest” from Two Underdogs and a Cat by Slavenka Drakulić. Copyright © Slavenka Drakulić, 2009.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Drakulić, Slavenka, 1949-
A guided tour through the museum of communism : fables from a mouse, a parrot, a bear, a cat, a mole, a pig, a dog, and a raven / Slavenka Drakulić. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-50252-5
1. Communism—Europe, Eastern—Fiction. 2. Post-Communism—Europe, Eastern—
Fiction. 3. Animals—Fiction. 4. Satire. I. Title.
PS3554.R2375G85 2011
813’.54—dc22 2010038778
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