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Paris, 1991. 61 år gamle Feliks Zhukovski har de siste 36 årene levd av å oppdatere reiseguiden sin til Østblokklandene for det vestlige markedet. Nå som Berlinmuren har falt må reiseguiden totalrevideres. Feliks bestemmer seg for å selge den til et amerikansk firma. Han legger deretter ut på en reise der han gjenforenes med broren Woodrow, møter igjen gamlekjæresten fra Øst-Berlin, og får høre om hva som egentlig skjedde med moren i Polen under krigen.
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Set in 1991, our narrator Feliks Zhukovski, a displaced Polish Communist living in Paris, lies in his sick bed being tended to by his landlady of forty years, Madame Lefevre. As they embark on their first ever conversation, Feliks surprises himself by revealing that Paris is not where he considers home and indeed that he has no idea where home for him would be. Separated from his family as a child when the Nazis invaded Poland, Feliks has spent his life producing a travel guide to Iron Curtain countries for Western readers. However, following the collapse of Communism in 1989 and the imminent retirement of his long-term publisher, Feliks finds himself tipped into a maelstrom which he cannot avoid. As he journeys for the first time to America to sell his travel guide there, Feliks is reunited with his half-brother, Woodrow, who no longer considers himself a Pole but rather an American and nothing more. Feeling his own alien status ever more acutely, Feliks has a growing desire to discover the fate of others from his past. Embarking on a journey that takes him back to his Polish hometown, to a long-lost love and to the bewildering landscape of a newly reunified Germany, Feliks is forced to confront the truth about his family's and his own past, and to question everything he once believed.
Forlag Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Utgivelsesår 2010
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780297859772
EAN 9780297859772
Omtalt tid 1945-1999
Språk Engelsk
Sider 342
Utgave 1
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