The Ministry of Pain - Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her classand pulls her dangerously close to anotherwhich, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.


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 ⚡️Book Title : The Ministry of Pain
⚡Book Author : Dubravka Ugrei?
⚡Page : 272 pages
⚡Published February 27th 2007 by Ecco (first published 2004)

The Ministry of Pain

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her classand pulls her dangerously close to anotherwhich, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.