The Stranger Next Door: An Anthology from the Other Europe

by Richard Swartz

The Balkans have been so troubled by violence and mis­understanding that we have the verb "balkanize," mean­ing to break up into smaller, warring components. While some of the region's artists and thinkers have invari­ably fallen into nationalistic tendencies, the twenty-two prominent authors represented here, from the erstwhile Yugoslavia and its neighbors Albania and Bulgaria, have chosen to attempt to bridge these divides. The essays,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126303
• ISBN13: 9780810126305
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"