- Summary
- An account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives.
- Uniform Title
- Tańczące niedźwiedzie. English
- Variant Title
- True stories of people nostalgic for life under tyranny
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Szabłowski, Witold, 1980- author.
- Published
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
- Locale
- Bulgaria
Europe, Eastern
Cuba
Eastern Europe
- Contents
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Introduction
Part one. Love ; Freedom ; Negotiations ; History ; Instincts ; Hibernation ; Lions to Africa ; Castration ; Dancing bears ; The end
Part two. Love. Cuba : the McRevolution is coming ; Freedom. Poland/United Kingdom : Lady Peron ; Negotiations. Ukraine : nothing bleeps for the smugglers ; History. Albania : the end of the concrete toadstools ; Instincts. Estonia : tea with the invader ; Hibernation. Poland : hobbits at the state farm ; Lions to Africa. Serbia : pop art Radovan. Serbia : chickens for the Serbs ; Castration. Georgia : Stalin's vestal virgins ; Dancing bears. Greece : we'll sweep capitalism away.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, translator.
- Notes
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"Originally published in Polish: Tańczące niedźwiedzie. Warszawa : Agora S.A. 2014."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Part one. Love ; Freedom ; Negotiations ; History ; Instincts ; Hibernation ; Lions to Africa ; Castration ; Dancing bears ; The end -- Part two. Love. Cuba : the McRevolution is coming ; Freedom. Poland/United Kingdom : Lady Peron ; Negotiations. Ukraine : nothing bleeps for the smugglers ; History. Albania : the end of the concrete toadstools ; Instincts. Estonia : tea with the invader ; Hibernation. Poland : hobbits at the state farm ; Lions to Africa. Serbia : pop art Radovan. Serbia : chickens for the Serbs ; Castration. Georgia : Stalin's vestal virgins ; Dancing bears. Greece : we'll sweep capitalism away.
Translated from the Polish.
