Europe in sepia

In Europe in Sepia, Dubravka Ugrešic wanders from the American Midwest to Zuccotti Park, from Ireland’s Aran Islands to Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, from the sadness of Dutch suburban housing estates to riots in South London. Along the way, she touches on a range of issues, from the listlessness of Central Europe to the boredom of the Low Countries. With one finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe and another on that of post-industrial America, Ugrešic examines the fallout of political failure and the garbage dump of popular culture.

With compassion and full of melancholic doubt, she writes in this collection of essays about the disappearance of the future, the concern about the fact that no new utopias have appeared after the collapse of communism, and how our time is one of unbridled nostalgia and longing for the past. Tempered by Ugrešic's light tone and her instinct for the absurd, Europa is sepia is a collection full of enchanting despair.