Title: Drivel
Product review: Having been a student of the former Yugoslavia, I have read all of Drakulic's essays on life in Yugoslavia, which was different from life in other Communist countries. Yugoslavia was a special case, and Drakulic had special things to say. She is a keenly perceptive and accessible writer with a gift for giving detail and lending insight into things people from outside Yugoslavia could not understand. However, Drakulic is not a fiction writer. This book is an improvement from her effort in Marble Skin, but I find that her fiction is pretentious-trying-not-to-be-pretentious, far-fetched (and these are not supposed to be fantasy or sci-fi novels), and completely devoid of anything really original. Drakulic goes for shock value, but her choices are obvious and not at all engaging.Don't waste your time.
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