Exit Into History - A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Eva Hoffman, writer and academic, was born in Cracow, Poland in 1945. She has since lived in Canada, the U. S. A. and England. Among her books are Lost in Translation , After Such Knowledge , Exit into History and Shtetl . The last two are reissued in Faber Finds. Klappentext Shortly after the epochal events of 1989 the author spent several months in her native Poland and four other countries: the then - Czechoslovakia! Hungary! Romania and Bulgaria. This is a portrait of the mosaic of the new Eastern Europe! a reconstruction of the post-war decades! and a meditation on the uses and misuses of historical memory. Zusammenfassung Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, building a compelling portrait of a region uncertain about its future.' IndependentShortly 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.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Hoffman, Hoffman Eva
• Assisted by: Ev Hoffman (Editor), Eva Hoffman (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9780571259007
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25900-7
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 202 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Poland, TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern, Romania, Hungary, Former Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, Cold War; Europe; Faber Finds; Geopolitics