My Estonia: Passport Forgery, Meat Jelly Eaters, and Other Stories

Author: Justin Petrone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789949901548
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of a dark winter and must survive in Estonia, the "least fortunate Scandinavian country," a land where people eat blood sausage and jellied meat, drink warm bread, and are always on time; a place where every family is haunted by the past and is struggling to catch up to the present. Over the course of one year, so much happens in this tiny northern land that it stops being foreign. Estonia and the college grad turned journalist become intimately acquianted. Inseparable. And in the end, he comes to love it, even when they do not want to let him back into their country.

Estonia

Author: Alexander Theroux
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606994654
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Any journey with Alexander Theroux is an education. Possessed of a razor-sharp and hyperliterate mind, he stands beside Thomas Pynchon as one of the sharpest cultural commentators of our time. So when he decided to accompany his wife ― the artist Sarah Son-Theroux ― on her Fulbright Scholarship to Estonia, it occasioned this penetrating examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced from the modern world. For Theroux, the country and its people become a puzzle. His fascination with their language, manners, and legacy of occupation and subordination lead him to a revelatory examination of Estonia’s peculiar place in European history. All the while, his trademark acrobatic allusions, quotations, and digressions ― which take us fromHamlet through Jean Cocteau to Married… with Children ― render his travels as much internal and psychical as they are external and physical. Through these obsessive references to Western culture, we come to appreciate how insular the country has become, yet also marvel at its fierce individuality and preternatural beauty ― such is the skill of Theroux’s gaze. This travelogue of his nine months abroad also brims with anecdotes of Theroux’s encounters with Estonian people and ― in some of its most bitterly comedic episodes ― his fellow Americans whom he at times feels more alienated from than the frosty, humorless Europeans. Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery is as biting and satirical as it is witty and urbane; as curious and lyrical as it is brash and irreverent. It marks a new highlight in an already stellar career and a book that continues Fantagraphics’ exceptional line of prose works.

Mission Estonia

Author: Justin Petrone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789949502899
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
This collection of entertaining columns captures Estonian life as experienced through the eyes of a foreigner. Inside you will find tales of mobile phones and wood-heated furnaces, jerks and drunks, Estonian blood and foreign men, homemade pickles and nuclear winters, blood sausages and jellied meats, celebrities and unzipped pants, Soviet nostalgia and Fish Fridays, prostitutes and porn addicts, pregnancy and dementia, moving and renovation, dress codes and tribes, secrets and saunas, drug wars and flying couches, Facebook and voyeurism. Not to mention other important characters, including the infamous Bunny and Blacky.

Bang Estonia

Author: Roosh V
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781477648858
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 46

Book Description
Pickup guide for Estonia.

The Spill

Author: Imbi Neeme
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1760893781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
In 1982, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car – but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina’s death, almost four decades later, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of aimless drifting, has finally found love, and yet can’t quite commit. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself. The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years – moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together.

Estonia

Author: Rein Taagepera
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429969279
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
After breaking free from the Bolsheviks in 1918, Estonia enjoyed independence until 1940 when the country was subsumed by the Soviet Union. Not until 1991 was Estonia able to make its next successful bid for sovereignty. In this book, Rein Taagepera traces the evolution of Estonia from prehistory to the present, when a radical turn of events in the former Soviet Union once again altered the destiny of this Baltic nation. The author explores in depth the remarkable changes in Estonia since 1980, framing his analysis within the larger picture of the Soviet Union and its demise. He also examines the issue of ethnic tensions between Estonians and Russian colonists and speculates on how unrest will affect the future of the country. Throughout his analysis, the author weaves in such key questions as: Why did Sovietization fail? How did Estonia’s quest for autonomy affect Soviet dissolution? What role will the country play on the global stage? What will Estonia’s future hold?

Shadowlands

Author: Meike Wulf
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785330748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to the present day. At its heart is the enduring anguish of World War Two and the subsequent half-century of Soviet rule. Shadowlands tells this story by foregrounding the experiences of the country’s intellectuals, who were instrumental in sustaining Estonian historical memory, but who until fairly recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.

Estonia

Author: Neil Taylor
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 1787383377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
As Russia rattles its sabres in the Baltic, Neil Taylor reconsiders the history of Estonia and its struggle to achieve statehood.

My Viljandi

Author: Justin Petrone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789916605752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
This book is a surreal account of some years spent in this small town. I arrived by train one evening, wondering why I had even returned. My marriage was over and my main companions were a notebook and pen. Then things started to happen. I fell in love with a Designer, was bewitched by Miss Cloud, comforted by a Lioness, and captivated by a Tigress. In Viljandi, I met divas, chefs, soothsayers, diplomats, poets, musicians, generals, bartenders, TV stars, and even boatmen. There were harvest parties, folk festivals, café and theater scenes, bonfires and yoga lessons. And coffee! Lots of coffee! But the main thing I learned during these years was this: you cannot write without love.

Branding Post-Communist Nations

Author: Nadia Kaneva
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136658009
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition to documenting various rebranding initiatives, these studies raise important questions about their political and cultural implications.