David Smiedt: 2 books
Are We There Yet?
Chasing a Childhood Through South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
In 2003 David Smiedt traveled to South Africa and found a very different country from the one he left in 1989 at the age of 19. This stirring memoir covers Smiedt’s travels across a post-Apartheid nation full of confusion and contradictions as he searches for his long-lost father. From Soweto to...
From Russia with Lunch
A Lithuanian Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Eighty-two years after Moses Dibobis escaped from the Lithuanian hamlet of Birzai with nothing but a sack lunch, the author journeys back to this former Soviet enclave looking for a link to his grandfather-something greater than their shared receding hairline and sense of humor. What he finds on...