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On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
Jadąc do Babadag
Andrzej Stasiuk (born 1960)
Translated by Michael Kandel
English editions
In EnglishOn the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
Harvill Secker · United Kingdom · 2011
On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · United States · 2011
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The journeys are a pretext; the subject is the world they lead to, poor, unneeded and forgotten: Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Albania, the Hungarian, Czech and Slovak provinces, or a crowded morning train from Warsaw to Żyrardów. Bus stations that are a nothingness trying to become a bus station, towns barely visible, villages that seem smaller on every visit. The author writes not about societies but about small communities and single people, such as Misha, who drove him from Cahul in a battered Lada for twenty euros, and about lives lived outside modernity, closer to a natural rhythm.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 321 pages in the original
- Set in
- Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, Poland
- First published
- 2004 by Wydawnictwo Czarne
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9788387391973 (original)
9781846550546 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)
9780151012718 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, United States)
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