Stalin's nose : across the face of Europe

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Stalin's nose : across the face of Europe

Rory Maclean

Tauris Parke, 2008 , c1992

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Preface by Colin Thubron

"First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 1992" -- t.p. verso

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内容説明

Through war and revolution, decay and regeneration, Stalin's Nose is a surreal and darkly comic ride and a portrait of Europe like no other. Rory MacLean's ground-breaking debut travel book begins when Winston the pig drops onto Uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. Unwilling to be left alone in her house Aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, hijacks her nephew and, together with Winston, sets out on one last ride. The Berlin Wall has fallen only weeks before and Zita is determined to reach across the reopened borders and rediscover her remarkable east European family. Zita's relations - the angel of Prague, the Hungarian grave digger who buried Stalin's nose, a dying Romanian propagandist - help tie together the loose ends of her life. They picnic at Auschwitz. They meet Lenin's embalmer. They carry a long-lost corpse over the Carpathian mountains. In a rattling Trabant the unlikely trio puff and wheeze across the changing continent, following the threads of memory.

目次

Preface by Colin Thurbron If Pigs Could Fly Germany Let Us Eat Bananas Czechoslovakia The Angel of Prague Rooms of Memory The End of Europe Hungary Shadows of History Little Kings The Moon was Young Poland Picnic at Auschwitz May Day Parody Field of Faith Romania Man thinks, God laughs Riding with the Best Man Words Words Words Moscovy Communism and Constipation A Pig in the Hand About the Author Other books by Rory MacLean

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