{"product_id":"9780571322039","title":"Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A book that takes you on an intimate journey through Eastern Europe at a time when the dust was still settling from the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Eva Hoffman travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, building a compelling portrait of a region uncertain about its future.' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortly after the epochal events of 1989 Eva Hoffman spent several months in her native Poland and four other countries: the then-Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. She visited capital cities, wayside villages and provincial towns; stopped at shipyards, museums, and the coffee-houses of the intelligentsia; and talked to a great variety of people about the tumult they had lived through. \u003ci\u003eExit into History\u003c\/i\u003e was the result: a portrait of the mosaic of the new Eastern Europe, a reconstruction of the turbulent post-war decades, and a meditation on the uses and misuses of historical memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181687816432,"sku":"9780571322039","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571322039_p0.jpg?v=1763719192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571322039","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}