The Age of Skin

"It takes a stranger to see how dark this world is: Dubravka Ugresic is that stranger."--Joseph Brodsky

"Like Nabokov, Ugresic affirms our ability to remember as a source for saving our moral and compassionate identity."--John Balaban, Washington Post

"A genuinely free-thinker, Ugresic's attachment to absurdity leads her down paths where other writers fear to tread."--The Independent

"As long as some, like Ugresic, who can write well, do, there will be hope for the future."--New Criterion

"Ugresic's wit is bound by no preconceived purposes, and once the story takes off, a wild freedom of association and adventurous discernment is set in motion. . . . Ugresic dissects the social world."--World Literature Today

"Never has a writer been more aware of how one narrative depends on another."--Joanna Walsh

"Ugresic is unbeatable at explaining the inexplicable entanglements of Balkan cultural traditions, particularly as they relate to the hellish position of women."--Clive James

"Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent, in part because within her quirky, aggressively sweet plot she achieves moments of profundity and evokes the stoicism innate in such moments."--Mary Gaitskill

"Ugresic must be numbered among what Jacques Maritain called the dreamers of the true; she draws us into the dream."--New York Times

"Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile, and the storyteller of many shattered lives."--Charles Simic