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Lost province : adventures in a Moldovan family / Stephen Henighan.
LIBRA DK509.29 .H46 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henighan, Stephen, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henighan, Stephen, 1960-.
- Travel.
- Manners and customs.
- Moldova--Description and travel.
- Moldova.
- Moldova--Social life and customs.
- Moldova--Languages.
- Language and languages.
- Henighan, Stephen, 1960---Travel--Moldova.
- Henighan, Stephen.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 177 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Beach Holme Pub., [2002]
- Summary:
- Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei. The author doesn't own his own home, is unable to use his English to communicate with singer Michael Jackson, and has inadequate knowledge of the prices of the latest North American gadgets. As a Canadian, Henighan feels at home in this nation adrift. Fifty years of Soviet propaganda have dictated that the Moldovan language is a "degenerate local patois, only distantly related to Romanian." The innocent observation by the author that Moldovan and Romanian are the same language is revolutionary in the tense climate of post-Soviet Moldova, and suddenly Henighan is embroiled in the fierce language-law debates that have thrown the entire country into upheaval.
- Contents:
- 1 Journey into Difference 1
- 2 The Family That Did Not Know It Spoke Romanian 11
- 3 The Jacksons Are Coming! 26
- 4 Little Dictators 34
- 5 Town, Countryside, and Caverns 44
- 6 Divide and Conquer 49
- 7 Chisinau Snapshots 61
- 8 Lebed's Kingdom 77
- 9 A Long Drunk 86
- 10 The Look of a Stranger 100
- 11 The Western Border 111
- 12 Irreconcilable Opposites 121
- 13 A Divided Departure 132
- Epilogue: 2001 141.
- Notes:
- "Prospect books."
- ISBN:
- 0888784325
- OCLC:
- 50583086
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