Told through different narrators (first and third person, male and female points of view, different generations), though always with a feminist sensibility, the stories weave autobiographical and fictional elements in their depiction of intimate moments, following the memories, digressions and associations that arise from a fragrance, a touch of cloth, a photograph. Unflinching and meticulous, Drakulić puts words to thoughts and feelings usually unspoken – deemed either too frivolous or too painful – an internal play-by-play of the gradual disappearance of a person.

Invisible Woman and Other Stories is an articulation of intimate experience, a manifest of irreversible loss and the internal rebellion against the injustices of ageing.

Translated, from the Croatian, by Jacob Agee and Christina Pribichevich Zori

Distributed in association with The Irish Pages Press

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“Invisible Woman is a book for all sentient women.”
Andrea Zlatar Violić

“Beautiful, sad and so very true. ”
Ingrid Šafranek

“This book simply cannot be read indifferently. Shocking, without an ounce of banality or sentimentality. ”
Anera Ryznar

“Slavenka Drakulić’s words are like a surgical knife.”
Melania Mazzucco, La Repubblica

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