Marble skin

Slavenka Drakulić

Original title: Mramorna koža

earliest edition we have, 1989 Hutchinson, 1993 188 pages

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A sculptor carves a statue out of ice-cold, smooth, glittering marble and calls it "My Mother's Body." Her mother sees the sculpture, recognizes in it all the pain and frustration of their relationship over the years, and tries to take her own life. Forced together by this near tragedy, the daughter sits at her mother's bedside and relives her childhood years, confronting the specter of sexual conflict that haunts th...

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Editions we hold

Marble skin edition · 1995 · HarperPerennial · 188 pages
Marble skin edition · 1994 · W.W. Norton · 188 pages
Marble skin edition · 1993 · Hutchinson · 188 pages
Peau de marbre edition · 1991 · Robert Laffont · 186 pages
Mramorna koža edition · 1989 · Grafički zavod Hrvatske · 157 pages

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