{"product_id":"9781847174345","title":"There's An Egg in my Soup: ... and other adventures of an Irishman in Poland","description":"Five years in the Polish wilderness.\u003cp\u003e  Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Without a word of Polish, he is plunged into a strange and rapidly changing culture, as the country shakes off its troubled and complex past and faces the challenges of being a part of modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Tom spent five years dealing with long and freezing winters, lack of good food, loneliness and hardship, as he discovered the misery as well as the joy of Polish life. He returned in 2007, to find surprising changes to the country that had been his home for the first years of his working life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  An interesting and amusing  account of living and working abroad, which documents a unique period of Polish history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irish American Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136011419888,"sku":"9781847174345","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847174345_p0.jpg?v=1763749133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847174345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}