Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia

This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected excellent, timely essays, stories, drama, and prose by exiled or silenced members of the Yugoslav intelligentsia.

Contributors: Dubravka Ugrešic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Dragan Velikic, Danilo Kiš, Drago Jancar, Mirko Kovac, Goran Stefanovski, Dzevad Karahasan, and Slobodan Blagojevic.

"A remarkable editorial achievement." --Mark Thompson, Guardian

"Politics, war and landscape are indissolubly wedded, the beauty sustains the suffering, the suffering deepens and gives dark new meaning to the beauty." --Hugh Barnes, Independent

"A collection of contemporary writers celebrating the vibrant culture of what was Yugoslavia even as they verify its end." --American Bookseller