Borika Radovanovi_ (1910-1994), a Serbian peasant who lived in the hills south of Belgrade, entertained her American guest with tasty food and the stories of her lifeÑher childhood, teenage games, the men she considered marrying and the one she ended up with, childbearing, an aborted abortion, her jobs, the hardships of the war and postwar years, the evil spells cast on her family, and finally, a lament for her husband. Her voice is earnestÑnow proud, now pained.
Ann C. Bigelow was a long-time editor at the Current Digest of the Soviet Press. She has translated the D. N. Sadovnikov collection of Russian folk riddles and Yugoslav writer Bora _osi_Õs novel My FamilyÕs Role in the World Revolution.