- History, Post-communism, Political persecution, National Book Award Winner
The Haunted Land is a look at how four newly democratic eastern European nations are dealing with the memories of forty years of communism. As one official orthodoxy replaces another, the people and governments of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia face ethical dilemmas as complex and wrenching as anything out of Kafka or Orwell.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Tina Rosenberg
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Vintage, VINTAGE, Random House
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099333517
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“In the official annals of the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Rudolf Zukal was Enemy of the People number 265.”
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