Slavenka Drakulic, the Croatian journalist and commentator, is out with "Taste of a Man", a bizarre love story. Drakulic is well-known for her New York Times opinion pieces, and her post-Iron Curtain books "How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed" and "Cafe Europa: Life After Communism". "Taste of a Man" is not necessarily about the war in the Balkans. It involves a woman who has a torrid three-month affair, and when her lover is about to go back to his family, she kills him. And eats him. Then scours her apartment. She's heard all kinds of interpretations of "Taste of a Man"; the religious, the psychological, and the political. They may all be valid, but Drakulic herself thinks the cannibalistic Thereza may be a parallel with the amoral killer in Camus' "The Stranger".