Offers an account of complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. This book draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism.[...]
"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska." Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin de siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they s[...]
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash's "The File, "Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding[...]
A shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism, a haunting presence of Europe's past
Oskar has just killed himself. After waiting a quarter century, he returned to Prague only to find it was no longer his home. With his memorial service, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marc[...]
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash's "The File", Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. "The Taste of Ashes" spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe's west through Prague, Bratislava,[...]