Description
Product ID: | 9781785786266 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A Chip Shop in Poznan |
Subtitle: | My Unlikely Year in Poland |
Authors: | Author: Ben Aitken |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Why do the Poles leave Poland? Travel writer Ben Aitken booked a one-way ticket to Poznan to find out. This account of his year is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country. A TIMES BESTSELLER''One of the funniest books of the year'' - Paul Ross, talkRADIOWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop.Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn''t love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place he''d never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage.When he wasn''t peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country''s surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdansk to learn how communism got the chop. By the year''s end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings! - and an uncanny ability to bone cod.This is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant. |
Imprint Name: | Icon Books |
Publisher Name: | Icon Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-07-02 |