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On the road to Babadag : travels in the other Europe / Andrzej Stasiuk ; translated from Polish by Michael Kandel.
Van Pelt Library PG7178.T28 Z46813 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stasiuk, Andrzej, 1960-
- Standardized Title:
- Jadąc do Babadag. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Stasiuk, Andrzej, 1960---Translations into English.
- Stasiuk, Andrzej.
- Stasiuk, Andrzej, 1960-.
- Stasiuk, Andrzej, 1960---Travel--Europe, Eastern.
- Travel.
- Eastern Europe.
- Europe, Eastern--Description and travel.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
- Summary:
- "Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. "The heart of my Europe," Stasiuk tells us, "beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna." Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi--loose wires hanging from the dashboard--by a driver in shorts and bare feet, a cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque--Byzantine--Tatar--Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, "simple and severe, a pencil pointed at the sky." A brilliant tour of Europe's dark underside--travel writing at its very best"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe by award-winning Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- That Fear 1
- The Slovak Two Hundred 7
- Rasnari 19
- Our Leader 32
- Description of a Journey through East Hungary to Ukraine 46
- Baia Mare 63
- Tara Secuilor, Szekelyfold, Szeklerland 68
- The Country in Which the War Began 77
- Shqiperia 89
- Moldova 109
- The Ferry to Galati 133
- Pitching One's Tent in a New Place 140
- Delta 145
- On the Road to Babadag 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255).
- ISBN:
- 9780151012718
- 0151012717
- OCLC:
- 651912290
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