01487    a2200229   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069040001700087041000900104050002400113082001500137100003000152245011800182260003700300300002100337520079600358651004501154700002601199700003201225BJBSDDR20230410142423.0ta170119b2018    ny ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781940953847  bspacBJBSDDR  aeng 00aR E 169 bU27a 201800a917.3049291 aUgresic, Dubravka d1949-1 aAmerican Fictionary /cDubravka Ugresic, Traslated from the croatian by Celian Hawkesworth and Ellen Elias-Bursac  aNew York :bOpen Letter ,c2018   a209 p. :c22 cm   aIn the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic—winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature—was invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer. A world away from the brutal sieges of Sarajevo and the nationalist rhetoric of Milošević, she instead has to cope with everyday life in America, where she's assaulted by "strong personalities," the cult of the body, endless amounts of jogging and exercise, bagels, and an obsession with public confession. Organized as a fictional dictionary, these early essays of Ugresic's (revised and amended for this edition) allow us to see American culture through the eyes of a woman whose country is being destroyed by war, and forces us to see through the comforting veil of Western consumerism. 4aEstados Unidos vDescripción y viajes.  aHawkesworth,  Celian   aElias-Bursac, Ellen d1952-