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Stalin's Nose - Across the Face of Europe (Paperback)
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Stalin's Nose - Across the Face of Europe (Paperback)
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Loot Price R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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'Crazy, charming, a delight' - John le Carre In Rory MacLean's
groundbreaking debut travel book, Winston the pig drops on to Uncle
Peter's head and kills him dead. Unwilling to be left alone in her
house Aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious
eccentric, hijacks her nephew and, together with Winston, sets out
on one last ride. The Berlin Wall has fallen only weeks before and
Zita is determined to reach across the reopened borders and
rediscover her remarkable east European family. In a rattling
Trabant the unlikely trio puff and wheeze across the changing
continent, following the threads of memory. Zita's relations - the
angel of Prague, the Hungarian grave digger who buried Stalin's
nose, a dying Romanian propagandist - help tie together the loose
ends of her life. They picnic at Auschwitz. They meet Lenin's
embalmer. They carry a long-lost corpse over the Carpathian
mountains. Through war and revolution, decay and regeneration,
Stalin's Nose is a surreal and darkly comic ride and a portrait of
Europe like no other.
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