Шенгенская история

On 21 December 2007, at midnight, Lithuania joined the Schengen area. That night three young couples who had become friends at a rock festival met at the farmstead of Pienagalis to celebrate and share their plans: Ingrida and Klaudijus were moving to London, Andrius and Barbora to Paris, Renata and Vitas to Italy. They had no idea what they would end up doing there; young and self-assured, they trusted Europe not to let them down. Meanwhile, far from Pienagalis, an old man with a wooden leg who knew Europe like the back of his hand waited at the barrier on the Lithuanian-Polish border, and when the guards raised it for good, became the first Lithuanian to cross without showing a passport.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

715 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Lithuania, United Kingdom, France, Italy

First published

2016 by Фолио

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789660376342 (original)