New Europe Books: 18 books
by M. Henderson Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Café tells the story of John Shirting, a socially inept, quiet young American who has left his country for mysterious reasons and, in a fast-changing capital of Eastern Europe, resolves to recreate one aspect of society in his own, crazily capitalist image. He...
The Devil is a Black Dog
Stories from the Middle East and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In the nineteen extraordinary stories that comprise The Devil Is a Black Dog and Other Stories, writer and photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi shows us the human side of war and revolution in the contemporary Middle East and Africa, and of the social upheaval that has held Eastern Europe in its...
Once Upon a Yugoslavia
When the American Way Met Tito's Third Way
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
It is 1968. Across America, citizens march for social reform and an end to the Vietnam War. Amid all this, Surya Green⎯a New York-born, self-absorbed, modern young woman⎯is a student at Stanford University, blithely pursuing a graduate degree in communication. Her view of life's purpose unexpectedly...
Petra K and the Blackhearts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Petra K and the Blackhearts take readers to a Prague-like city where miniaturized show-dragons are pitted against each other in secret, forbidden tournaments, and magic has been outlawed by a cruel child dictator. Here lives Petra K, the daughter of a shut-in mother, who becomes the master of a dragonka...
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The critically acclaimed, first comprehensive, English-language informative AND highly entertaining overview of a region of vital importance to the European--and global--economy and that represents the ancestry of tens of millions of North Americans and others throughout the world
Sales of...
The Essential Guide to Being Polish
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter⎯and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive,...
The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
An instant backlist evergreen, this title is a great gift or a vehicle of self discovery for anyone with a Hungarian background, marrying into a Hungarian family, planning a trip to Hungary or just plain curious.
This humorous, knowing volume has proven its sales appeal with 4,000+ copies sold...
The Wild Cats of Piran
Chronicle One
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The Wild Cats of Piran focuses on Europe's most magical cats in a battle for their nine lives! In an engaging and witty, very short novel that brings alive its setting—a charming and historically redolent small, seaside city on the ravishing coast of the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia—the wild cats...
Ballpoint
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow...
The Color of Smoke
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The first major novel about Eastern Europe's Roma, or Travelers (Gypsies), by a Romani author, The Color of Smoke is both a work of passion chronicling one young man's rise to manhood and an epic work that conjures up a dark era of world history. It is an undiscovered classic that has been published...
The Upright Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Upright Heart chronicles the return from Brooklyn of a Jewish man, Wolf, to his native Poland soon after World War II. He is haunted by the memory of his Catholic lover, Olga, whom he abandoned to marry a woman of his own faith and start a new life in America, and who perished sheltering the parents...
by Graznya Plebanek
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish generation that is truly 'free', but struggle to know where the boundaries of that freedom lie. Plebanek's characters have to negotiate between...
by Sandor Szathmari
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A singular combination of Brave New World and Gulliver’s Travels, this is an eerily timely masterpiece of satire⎯Orwellian in its surehandedness, insights, and timelessness.
For fans of satire, dystopian/utopian fiction, and sci-fi
A Short Border Handbook
A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.
A wonderful, memorable cast of characters:...
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