Between Exile and Asylum: An Eastern Epistolary

A collection of 40 letters written by Croatian dissident intellectual Matvejevic from Moscow, Mostar, and more recently Paris and Rome to where he moved from war-torn Bosnia. They chronicle first the dissolution of the Soviet Union, then the dissolution of Yugoslavia from the perspective of a writer born in Mostar to a Russian father and a Croat mother. The Serbo-Croatian Istocni epistolar was published in 1994 by CERES, Zagreb. Valentino has consulted not only that edition, but also French and Italian translations, which differ from it. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR