Exit Into History [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Exit into History. A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XVII, 410 Seiten / p. Mängelstrich auf Fußschnitt, altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / Defect line on foot cut, very good condition for age - in this arresting, intimate narrative journey, the award-winning author of Lost in Translation returns to her Polish homeland and five other countries - Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the two nations of the former Czechoslovakia - which had just undergone an historic transformation in the wake of communism s demise. The result is this penetrating personal odyssey across the "other Europe" and a vivid portrayal of a landscape in the midst of change. Hoffman combines the wise perspective of an outsider and the passionate concern of a native daughter to illuminate the forces informing the region s complex politics, and to capture the texture of everyday life in a world in flux. -- Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea - from the beauty of Prague s baroque architecture to the bizarre planned villages of Ceau§escu s Romania. She ranges from capital cities to sleepy provincial towns; she visits shipyards, museums, people s homes, and the coffeehouses of the intelligentsia. Everywhere, she uses her bicul-tural perspective to enter deeply into the lives of the people she meets - former dissidents wielding new political power, deposed apparatchiks turned successful entrepreneurs, artists and their literate excensors - all struggling with the transition from an unwanted past to an uncertain future. For each, the changes range from simple things like the way they buy milk to more radical life transformations as they look for their own place in the new world order. ISBN 9780670836499 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720 15,9 x 3,8 x 24,1 cm, Originalhalbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1210276

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