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Loading... Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europeby Eva Hoffman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Really enjoyed this book, though thought the intro chapter could have been an afterword. Excellent to get an idea of what it was like immed after the cold war ended in Eastern Europe. Loved the personal interviews and thoughts from people the author met on her travels. ( ) Post 1989 Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). I can read people who write in this style all day. Straightforward, knowledgeable, insightful. For more on her latest (2009) book, a novel, 'Illuminations' see: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/eva-hoffman-the-f... no reviews | add a review
A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, building a compelling portrait of a region uncertain about its future.' Independent Shortly after the epochal events of 1989 Eva Hoffman spent several months in her native Poland and four other countries: the then-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. She visited capital cities, wayside villages and provincial towns; stopped at shipyards, museums, and the coffee-houses of the intelligentsia; and talked to a great variety of people about the tumult they had lived through. Exit into History was the result: a portrait of the mosaic of the new Eastern Europe, a reconstruction of the turbulent post-war decades, and a meditation on the uses and misuses of historical memory. No library descriptions found. |
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