SOURCE: Gorup, Radmila J. Review of As If I Am Not There: A Novel about the Balkans, by Slavenka Drakulic. World Literature Today 74, no. 3 (summer 2000): 669-70.

In the following review, Gorup complains that As If I Am Not There is overly concerned with ideology and lacks sufficient plot and characterization.

Now the tumor is beside her, as if transformed by some miracle into a child. It is difficult for S. to accept. She has never thought of it as a child, only as a disease, a burden she wished to get rid of, a parasite she wanted removed from her organism.” So ruminates S., the protagonist of [As If I Am Not There,] the newest novel by Slavenka Drakulić. Drakulić, a Croatian journalist and writer, is familiar to the U.S. reading audience as the author of three novels (Holograms of Fear, The Taste of a Man, and...