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ZBOGOM SRBIJO (Goodbye Serbia) - Yugoslavia: Two Faces of War
 
ZBOGOM SRBIJO relates the experiences of a freelance journalist, who returns to Yugoslavia in the mid-90s as the war raged in Bosnia. While trying to help a friend, she becomes entangled in the war. Her obsession for a mysterious Balkan man, who both frightens and mesmerizes her, leads her into a terrifying abyss where she painfully learns that given the right circumstances, anyone is capable of the unimaginable.

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 "...This is a novel from the bleeding pen." -- Kemal Kurspahic, war editor of the Sarajevo's Oslobodjenje and author of As Long As Sarajevo Lives. 
 

395 pages
ISBN 0-9707059-1-3
Price: 18.00

 

 
VOICES FROM THE FAULTLINE - A Balkan Anthology
 
While the world's attention has been focused on the violence and political events in the Balkans, the creative works of those who struggle to maintain the rich literary culture in this under represented part of Europe has been ignored. This anthology recognizes some of those passionate voices from the faultline.

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"... fascinating -- if not exactly a balm to the spirits." -- Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of Linguistics & Philosophy, social activist, lecturer, political analysis, and author of Rogue States, 9-11. 
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291 pages
ISBN 0-9707059-2-1
Price: 36.00

 

 
TOMBS FROM HEAVEN - Metaphorical Poetry from Romania
 
In conflict with Romanian authorities, Smarandache became a dissident. In 1988 he escaped Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, left his peasant parents, his son and pregnant wife, and fled to Turkey where he survived two years in a political refugee camp. After immigrating to the US, he later returned to his homeland for his family and to retrieve his buried poems and manuscripts; however, the remainder of his work had been confiscated by the secret police and was never returned.

 
 
 

160 pages
ISBN 0-9707059-3-X
Price: 16.00

 

 
A TRILOGY IN pARadOXisM - Avant-Garde Political Dramas
 
Not simply an example of paradox in literature or merely a trio of plays from the theatre of the absurd. Smarandache's dramas epitomize the perversion of power and the ambagious nature that plagues today's regimes -- regardless of the ideology in which they veil themselves. The nonsensical dialogue, chauvinistic rulings, and paradoxical imagery in these plays mimic a regime's preoccupation with power-dominance, pride, self-grandiloquence, revenge, unpatriotic labeling of the opposition, and an ideology based not on constructive dialogue and equality, but on subjugation or annihilation. The Emperor has no clothes! Like the leader's constituency in Smarandache's dramas, many in today's society choose to hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil with regard to their own government -- there lies the Axis of Evil ... and the paradox!

 
 

218 pages
ISBN 0-9707059-5-6
Price: 25.00

 

 
EYES IN THE DARK - Poetry Obscura
 
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An eclectic collection of twenty-one poems by Zakalin Nezic, journalist, editor, and author of Zbogom Srbijo - Yugoslavia: Two Faces of War

 
 
 

52 pages
ISBN 0-9707059-4-8
Price: 8.00

 

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