TY - BOOK ID - 77925239 TI - Alisa, Alice AU - Potočnjak, Dragica AU - Wade, Lesley Anne PY - 2003 SN - 1280476850 9786610476855 1841508861 9781841508863 1841501042 9781841501048 9781280476853 1841500895 9781841500898 1841508845 9781841508849 PB - Bristol, UK Portland, OR Intellect DB - UniCat KW - Croatian drama. KW - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 KW - War in former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav Conflict, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav Wars of Secession, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994 KW - -Croatian literature KW - Refugees KW - Women KW - Croatian literature KW - -Refugees UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77925239 AB - Alisa, Alice' is a humanely cruel and deeply moving drama, full of passion and desire. The clash of two cultures - two worlds - is described with psychological accuracy and depth. Alisa, a young Muslim refugee scarred by the Balkan war finds shelter with Magda, a representative of the common so-called civilised but self-destructive and self-loving western world. Magda, through the sadism arising from her despair and loss of purpose, her psychological confusion, causes the suicide of Alisa. Their relationship permeated as much with love as with hatred, is decanted through the dictatorship of la ER -