A review by whatsnonfiction
The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugrešić

5.0

4.5 These were extraordinary. I don't think I've read anything that gives this kind of commentary on the states of the former Yugoslavia before. And uses those observations as a lens to define so much of what's going on in the world right now, and some of the darker undercurrents in Europe. A lack of empathy -- that idea runs through these.

I was only a little confused because two or so of them suddenly veered into some kind of fantasy/magical realism at the end and I didn't quite get it. The translation seems very good, but maybe something was lost here, and there was more dark humor to it than I was picking up? I don't know. Otherwise; perfect.