Thursday, June 30, 2011

Recommended Reading: A Weird, Wonderful Ramble Through 'Other Europe'


On The Road to Babadac - Travels in the Other Europe
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.”

Read a review and excerpt from the book on NPR.org


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