The gypsy in me
Simon, Ted
The gypsy in me / Ted Simon - New York : Random House , c1997. - 318p. : maps ; 24 cm.
From Germany to Romania in search of Youth, Truth, and Dad
The Gypsy in Me recounts Ted Simons 1,500-mile journey through Germany, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Romania. Traveling off the beaten path from the homeland of his German mother to the birthplace of his Romanian Jewish father, he gets an up-close and personal glimpse of lives in a time of change: former East Germans lamenting the loss of Communism, entrepreneurs eager to do business American-style, aloof gypsies, a Russian colonel's family struggling in a troubled economy. And in Romania Simon miraculously meets a man who knew his grandfather, and learns details of his father's mysterious past.Like a grittier Peter Mayle or a less acerbic Paul Theroux, Simon brings out the profound aspects of traveling into the unknown. He is also laugh-out-loud funny, wryly describing being chased by a bull, discovering that Romanian restaurants serve nothing but pork cutlet, and encountering, in the Ukraine, the Worst Toilet in the World. The Gypsy in Me is more than a travelogue -- it is a journey through time and culture as well as through space -- and that gives it universal appeal.
English
0-679-44138-7
Simon, Ted---Journeys---Eastern Europe
92 SIM
The gypsy in me / Ted Simon - New York : Random House , c1997. - 318p. : maps ; 24 cm.
From Germany to Romania in search of Youth, Truth, and Dad
The Gypsy in Me recounts Ted Simons 1,500-mile journey through Germany, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Romania. Traveling off the beaten path from the homeland of his German mother to the birthplace of his Romanian Jewish father, he gets an up-close and personal glimpse of lives in a time of change: former East Germans lamenting the loss of Communism, entrepreneurs eager to do business American-style, aloof gypsies, a Russian colonel's family struggling in a troubled economy. And in Romania Simon miraculously meets a man who knew his grandfather, and learns details of his father's mysterious past.Like a grittier Peter Mayle or a less acerbic Paul Theroux, Simon brings out the profound aspects of traveling into the unknown. He is also laugh-out-loud funny, wryly describing being chased by a bull, discovering that Romanian restaurants serve nothing but pork cutlet, and encountering, in the Ukraine, the Worst Toilet in the World. The Gypsy in Me is more than a travelogue -- it is a journey through time and culture as well as through space -- and that gives it universal appeal.
English
0-679-44138-7
Simon, Ted---Journeys---Eastern Europe
92 SIM
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