{"product_id":"from-chernobyl-with-love-9781640122048","title":"From Chernobyl with Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Hoffer Grand Prize Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e 2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Autobiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003cbr\u003e Bronze Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries and Communist propaganda was being displaced by Western ideals of a free press. Young writers, journalists, and adventurers such as Katya Cengel flocked from the West eastward to cities like Prague and Budapest, seeking out \u003ci\u003eterra nova\u003c\/i\u003e. Despite the region’s appeal, neither Kyiv in Ukraine nor Riga in Latvia was the type of place you would expect to find a twenty-two-year-old Californian just out of college. Kyiv was too close to Moscow. Riga was too small to matter—and too cold. But Cengel ended up living and working in both. This book is her remarkab","brand":"MQ - University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49410971271511,"sku":"9781640122048","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781640122048.jpg?v=1730511944","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-chernobyl-with-love-9781640122048","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}