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Hardcover Room Service: Reports from Eastern Europe Book

ISBN: 1565844181

ISBN13: 9781565844186

Room Service: Reports from Eastern Europe

Room Service offers richly detailed images of the people and places of Richard Swartz's adopted slice of Europe, and thoughtful reflection on his status as a privileged outsider.

We meet Serbian poets and priests in the service of war, the bewitching wife of a Romanian bigot, a Czech factory manager turned hotel porter in the wake of 1968, Ceau escu's masseuse, the king of all the gypsies, a cantor who is the last survivor of a Jewish...

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Eastern Europe History Sweden Travel

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A sensitive personal portrait of pre-1989 Eastern Europe.

I am the translator for this book, so naturally I may be counted as biased, but I enjoyed the essays so much that I want to urge others to explore them. Richard Swartz was the Eastern European correspondent for the Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet for many years. His intimate acquaintance with day-to-day life in the various cultures of Eastern Europe (including Albania) and his status as an observer from a small and (mostly) neutral country make his observations unique among those I have read. Add to these qualities his eloquent and moving prose style, and you have a wonderful book, part travelogue, part personal essay, all closely observed and sensitively portrayed. Often moving and/or funny. I recommend it warmly.
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