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- 318pagine
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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.
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History Of A Disappearance, Filip Springer
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- Pubblicato
- 2017
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- Titolo
- History Of A Disappearance
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Filip Springer
- Editore
- Regan Arts
- Pubblicato
- 2017
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 318
- ISBN10
- 1632061155
- ISBN13
- 9781632061157
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storia, Mappe e viaggi, Storie vere, Giornalismo narrativo, Narrativa di viaggio, Giornalismo e Pubblicistica, Reportage letterario, Letteratura polacca, Polonia, Mineralogia
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2011
- Titolo originale
- Miedzianka: Historia znikania
- Valutazione
- 4,25 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.