The Native's Return - An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country (Hardcover, New edition of 1934 ed)

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 of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1975
First published:	April 1975
Authors:	Louis Adamic
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	358
Edition:	New edition of 1934 ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8371-7965-0
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > General Books > Travel > General
LSN:	0-8371-7965-3
Barcode:	9780837179650

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