LAUGHING IN THE JUNGLE was a dark horse success. This book has been
selected by the Book of the Month for February, which should give
it an impetus and a certain amount of publicity. Winner of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, Adamic used it to revisit his home, in
Jugoslavia, and to give us, in this book, a picture of that
strangely composite country today. There the old world and the new
meet and blend; feudal mediaevalism lives next door to a modern
boom city; peasantry in the civilization of another century is
ruled by a dictator and high handed. Jugoslavic replica of Capone.
Nationalities with nothing in common, customs that have different
roots and meanings - all this he sees and gives in chatty,
anecdotal form, with the perspective of the native who has lived
out of it all for so long that he sees with new eyes and at the
same time interprets with sympathetic understanding. More than a
travel book - this book interprets a social paradox of modern
Europe. Sell to readers interested in economic and social problems
of remote countries, and to those who like travel. (Kirkus Reviews)
Excerpt from The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits
Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country Guggenheim Fellowship
requiring me to go to Europe for a year, I was thirty-three and had
been 1n the United States nineteen years. At fourteen - a son of
peasants, with a touch of formal city education - I had emigrated
to the United States from Carniola, then a tiny Slovene province of
Austria, now an even tinier part of a banowna in the new Yugoslav
state; In those nineteen years.. I had become an American; ih deed,
I had often thought I was more American than W'ere most of the
native citizens of my acquaintance. I was ceaselessly, almost
fanatically, interested 1n the Amer ican scene; in ideas and forces
operating in America's national life, in movements, tendencies and
personalities, in technical advances, in social, economic, and
political problems, and generally in the tremendous drama of the
New World. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds
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