Ugrasic's retelling may be blisteringly postmodern in its execution but at its heart is a human warmth and even a silliness that infuses it with the sweet magic of storytelling.
- Melissa Katsoulis, * The Times *
Packed with intellectual surprises and emotional revelations
- Tina Jackson, * The Metro *
The message that old crones are the product of "long-lived, labyrinthine, fertile, profoundly misogynistic but also cathartic work of the imagination" is expressed with humour, eloquence and anger.
- Alyssa McDonald, * New Statesman *
Ugresic has a unique tone of voice, a madcap wit and a lovely sense of the absurd. Ingenious.
- Marina Warner,
She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished.
* Susan Sontag *
Ugresic is sharp, funny and unfazed in the face of the little dictators who have torn apart her former country. Orwell would be proud.
- Timothy Garton-Ash on THE MINISTRY OF PAIN,
Contains some of the most profound reflections on culture, memory and madness you wiill ever read.
- Carole Angier on THE MINISTRY OF PAIN, * Independent *