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Autore: |
Springer Filip <1982->
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Titolo: |
History of a disappearance : the story of a forgotten Polish town / / Filip Springer ; translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
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Pubblicazione: | Brooklyn, New York : , : Restless Books, , [2017] |
©2017 | |
Edizione: | First Restless Books paperback edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 pages) |
Disciplina: | 943.8 |
Soggetto geografico: | Poland History |
Persona (resp. second.): | ByeSean Gasper |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | All the resurrections -- The bottle -- Kupferberger gold -- Daddy isn't there -- O Lord, make no tarrying -- They went away -- Photographs I -- Westward, or All the deaths of Barbara Wójcik -- Ueberschaer's tomb -- The second cemetery -- Long live Mikołajczyk! -- Postscript -- The last ones -- Don't touch the graves -- There was this fear -- The Germans are coming -- Whose fault -- That evil woman -- The church -- The manor house -- The brewery -- The letter -- Photographs II -- All Miedzianka's treasures -- The town is gone -- Epilogue. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher. |
Titolo autorizzato: | History of a disappearance ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-63206-116-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808265903321 |
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