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As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building's residents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand— some imported from Western Europe & North America, others regional knockoffs or questionably improvised. Maša Kolanovic's Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news & the intrigues of sexual curiosity. The idealized glamour of Barbie & Ken on an endless honeymoon morphs into make-believe scenarios that reflect the splintering social structure brought about by the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s: politicians campaigning to define what it means to be a "real" Croatian, a refugee ball with "disgusting" dolls that are lesser than "genuine" Barbie products, the discovery of a mass grave filled with headless corpses thought to be Ken's mistresses.Underground Barbie deftly renders the power of imagination to overcome hardship alongside a sharp critique of consumer culture, made even more stark against the shredded backdrop of a great socialist experiment.°°°Maša Kolanović is a prize-winning author & professor best known for her genre-bending works of fictio

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Author

Maša Kolanovic, Ena Selimović (translation)

Publisher

Sandorf Passage

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9789533515120

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Contemporary Fiction, Fiction