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An award-winning writer travels the eastern front of Europe, where
the push/pull between old empires and new possibilities has never
been more evident. Paolo Rumiz traces the path that has twice cut
Europe in two-first by the Iron Curtain and then by the artificial
scaffolding of the EU-moving through vibrant cities and abandoned
villages, some places still gloomy under the ghost of these
imposing borders, some that have sought to erase all memory of it
and jump with both feet into the West (if only the West would have
them). In The Fault Line, he is a sublime and lively guide through
these unfamiliar landscapes, piecing together an atlas that has
been erased by modern states, delighting in the discovery of
communities that were once engulfed by geopolitics then all but
forgotten, until now. The farther south he goes, the more he feels
he is traveling not along some abandoned Eastern frontier, but
right in the middle of things: Mitteleuropa wasn't to be found in
Viennese cafes but much farther east, beyond even Budapest and
Warsaw. As in Ukraine, these remain places in flux, where the
political and cultural values of the East and West have stared each
other down for centuries. Rumiz gives a human face not just to what
the Cold War left behind but to the ancient ties of empire and
ethnicity that are still at the root of modern politics in
flash-point areas such as this.
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