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Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land - Softcover

Mikanowski, Jacob

 
9780861547326: Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0861547322 ISBN 13: 9780861547326
Verlag: Oneworld Publications, 2024

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An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore.

'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written.' Serhii Plokhy

Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, the area exuded a tragicomic character like no other.

This is a paean for a disappearing world of movable borders, sacred groves and syncretism. And an invitation to not forget.

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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

'An insightful chronicle... distilling more than a decade of research, [Mikanowski] carefully argues that if something marks out Europe's eastern half, it is not homogeneity but wild, glorious diversity.' Economist

'A lively and sweeping history.' Washington Post

'Goodbye Eastern Europe is a thematic history of a divided half-continent, a goulash of imperial histories, shifting frontiers and heartbreaking family stories, spiced with myth and poet-martyrs, and deeply satisfying on the palate... vital and informed.' TLS

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He is now a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley in California. Concurrently, he has become a well-known essayist and freelance journalist, writing pieces for publications including the Guardian, New York Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, Harper's, Slate, Aeon, Prospect Magazine and many more. His two long reads for the Guardian were included in the paper's 'Best of the Year' round-up in 2018.

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A farewell to Eastern Europe and its vanishing culture.

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Verlag
Oneworld Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0861547322
ISBN 13 
9780861547326
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
375
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