History of a disappearance : the story of a forgotten Polish town / / Filip Springer ; translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

• Autore: Springer Filip <1982->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II