{"product_id":"stalins-nose-9780755617074","title":"Stalins Nose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Crazy, charming, a delight'' - John le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Rory MacLean''s groundbreaking debut travel book, Winston the pig drops on to Uncle Peter''s head and kills him dead. Unwilling to be left alone in her house Aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, hijacks her nephew and, together with Winston, sets out on one last ride. The Berlin Wall has fallen only weeks before and Zita is determined to reach across the reopened borders and rediscover her remarkable east European family. In a rattling Trabant the unlikely trio puff and wheeze across the changing continent, following the threads of memory. Zita''s relations - the angel of Prague, the Hungarian grave digger who buried Stalin''s nose, a dying Romanian propagandist - help tie together the loose ends of her life. They picnic at Auschwitz. They meet Lenin''s embalmer. They carry a long-lost corpse over the Carpathian mountains. Through war and revolution, decay and regeneration, \u003ci\u003eStalin''s Nose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrazy, charming, a delight. -- John le Carré\u003cbr\u003eRory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of our generation. -- Katie Hickman\u003cbr\u003eA minor masterpiece of comic surrealism. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe most extraordinary debut in travel writing since \"In Patagonia\". A dark, sardonic and brilliant book which grows in stature with every page. -- William Dalrymple\u003cbr\u003eAs an allegory it is powerful and frequently moving. As a tale it is tremendous fun. It is also a thing of beauty. -- Jan Morris\u003cbr\u003eThere is pathos - and adventure - in spades... Stalin's Nose is an essential companion for anyone travelling to a part of the world still recovering from the horrors of the giant confidence trick that was communism. -- Justin Marozzi * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a painful book of bitter old ages, or lives which have had their meanings repeatedly declared void. It is very hard and very good. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA Gogolesque tour in a Trabant: eccentric, amusing and chilling. * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eThe wittiest, most surreal travel writing of recent years. -- Frank Delaney\u003cbr\u003eThe best book I've read for a long time. -- John Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface by Colin Thurbron\u003c\/i\u003e  If Pigs Could Fly  \u003cb\u003eGermany\u003c\/b\u003e Let Us Eat Bananas  \u003cb\u003eCzechoslovakia\u003c\/b\u003e The Angel of Prague Rooms of Memory The End of Europe  \u003cb\u003eHungary\u003c\/b\u003e Shadows of History Little Kings The Moon was Young  \u003cb\u003ePoland\u003c\/b\u003e Picnic at Auschwitz  May Day Parody Field of Faith  \u003cb\u003eRomania\u003c\/b\u003e Man thinks, God laughs Riding with the Best Man Words Words Words  \u003cb\u003eMoscovy\u003c\/b\u003e Communism and Constipation A Pig in the Hand  \u003ci\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOther books by Rory MacLean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404747120983,"sku":"9780755617074","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stalins-nose-9780755617074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}