Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

* Ugrasic's retelling may be blisteringly postmodern in its execution but at its heart is a human warmth and even a silliness that infuses it with the sweet magic of storytelling. -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times * Packed with intellectual surprises and emotional revelations. -- Tina Jackson The Metro * The message that old crones are the product of "long-lived, labyrinthine, fertile, profoundly misogynistic but also cathartic work of the imagination" is expressed with humour, eloquence and anger. -- Alyssa McDonald New Statesman * Ugresic has a unique tone of voice, a madcap wit and a lovely sense of the absurd. Ingenious. -- Marina Warner * She is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished. -- Susan Sontag * Ugresic is sharp, funny and unfazed in the face of the little dictators who have torn apart her former country. Orwell would be proud. -- Timothy Garton-Ash On The Ministry Of Pain The Ministry of Pain * Contains some of the most profound reflections on culture, memory and madness you wiill ever read. -- Carole Angier On The Ministry Of Pain Independent