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Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects on your bookshelf

Nov 14, 2017

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A wedding dress sealed in a jar. A roll of undeveloped film. An axe used to chop an ex-lover's furniture in a fit of rage. These objects, and many more handpicked from our global collection by the authors Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić make up the whimsical, imaginative, poignant population of The Museum of Broken Relationships, Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects – this gorgeous book was published in 2017, by Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group in United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion Books) in United Kingdom. This beautiful oversized, four-color book will offer an irresistible glimpse inside other people's secret worlds, creating moments of deep human connection. It is a must read for anyone who has ever loved and lost. A great addition to everyone’s bookshelf or coffee table The Museum of Broken Relationships is, just as the museum itself, a delightful and poignant celebration of modern love.

Publisher and authors

Publisher

For dramatic rights inquiries, please contact Timothy Knowlton at Curtis Brown.
For translation rights please contact Nicole Bond at Grand Central.
For publicity inquires please contact Linda Duggins at Grand Central.

Authors

Olinka Vištica is an arts producer, born in Split, Croatia, and cofounder of the Museum of Broken Relationships. She holds master’s degrees in English and French language and literature from the Faculty of Humanities at Zagreb University.

Dražen Grubišić is a versatile visual artist from Zagreb, Croatia. He holds a master’s in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and is a cofounder of the Museum of Broken Relationships.

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Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects on your bookshelf

Nov 14, 2017

Worldwide

A wedding dress sealed in a jar. A roll of undeveloped film. An axe used to chop an ex-lover's furniture in a fit of rage. These objects, and many more handpicked from our global collection by the authors Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić make up the whimsical, imaginative, poignant population of The Museum of Broken Relationships, Modern Love in 203 Everyday Objects – this gorgeous book was published in 2017, by Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group in United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion Books) in United Kingdom. This beautiful oversized, four-color book will offer an irresistible glimpse inside other people's secret worlds, creating moments of deep human connection. It is a must read for anyone who has ever loved and lost. A great addition to everyone’s bookshelf or coffee table The Museum of Broken Relationships is, just as the museum itself, a delightful and poignant celebration of modern love.

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"This menagerie of heart-felt creations like the wedding dress in a jar or love-letter piñata will hit you with unexpected emotions and leave your heart feeling full and connected."

Frank Warren, New York Times bestselling author of the PostSecret series

"If all the world is a museum of broken relationships, then telling our stories about what is left behind is the way to help us mend."

Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and President of Narrative 4

European union

The final recipient of a financial instrument co-financed from the European Fund for Regional Development as part of the Operational Program "Competitiveness and Cohesion".