My Family's Role in the World Revolution: And Other Prose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810113688)

Bora Ćosic's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Ćosic's publications to be for over four years.

During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family--including an alarmist mother, an eternally drunk father, two young aunts who swoon over American movie stars, and a playboy uncle--attempt to find any kind of work they can do at home. When the postwar Socialist society is being ushered in after the war, the narrator becomes the slogan-spouting ideological leader of the household, while his family tries--and often fails miserably--to take part in the "great change."

This volume also includes several Ćosic short stories, and recent essays on the war in the former Yugoslavia.

Author: Bora Cosic
ISBN-10: 0810113686
ISBN-13: 9780810113688
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/1997
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.06h x 4.82w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/18/1997 pg. 71
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/1997 pg. 1415