Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski
Hardback
400 pages

Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, the area exuded a tragicomic character like no other.

This is a paean for a disappearing world of movable borders, sacred groves and syncretism. And an invitation to not forget.