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008			111104s2011 mau b 000 0 eng
010			_a2010052592
020			_a9780151012718
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050	0	0	_aPG7178.T28 _bZ46813 2011
082	0	0	_a914 STA
100	1		_aStasiuk, Andrzej, 1960-
240	1	0	_aJadñac do Babadag _l. English
245	1	0	_aOn the road to Babadag _b: travels in the other Europe _c/ Andrzej Stasiuk ; translated from Polish by Michael Kandel
260			_aBoston _b: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt _c, 2011.
300			_a255 p. _c; 22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-255).
520			_a"Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. "The heart of my Europe," Stasiuk tells us, "beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna." Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi--loose wires hanging from the dashboard--by a driver in shorts and bare feet, a cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque--Byzantine--Tatar--Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, "simple and severe, a pencil pointed at the sky." A brilliant tour of Europe's dark underside--travel writing at its very best"--Provided by publisher.
520			_a"A collection of travel narratives from Central and Eastern Europe by award-winning Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk".
600	1	0	_aStasiuk, Andrzej, 1960-
650		7	_aTravel writing
651			_aEurope _x-Civilization _x-Islamic influences
700	1		_aKandel, Michael
942			_cMO
999			_c261302 _d261302