History of a disappearance the story of a forgotten Polish town
Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Brooklyn, New York
Restless Books
april 2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher All the resurrections -- The bottle -- Kupferberger gold -- Daddy isn't there -- O Lord, make no tarrying -- They went away -- Photographs I -- Westward, or All the deaths of Barbara Wójcik -- Ueberschaer's tomb -- The second cemetery -- Long live Mikołajczyk! -- Postscript -- The last ones -- Don't touch the graves -- There was this fear -- The Germans are coming -- Whose fault -- That evil woman -- The church -- The manor house -- The brewery -- The letter -- Photographs II -- All Miedzianka's treasures -- The town is gone -- Epilogue |
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| Beschreibung: | "First published as 'Miedzianka : historia znikania' by Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2011"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-318) |
| Beschreibung: | 318 pages map 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 1632061155 1-63206-115-5 9781632061157 978-1-63206-115-7 |