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5.0 out of 5 stars
A unique window on Poland during the birth of Solidarity,
By Dharma "Book Bum" (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: UNQUIET DAYS CL (Hardcover)
This book starts out like a simple love story. Boy meets Girl in a hotel bar in London, boy follows girls to Poland. Then suddenly he is teaching English in the Methodist School in Warsaw, walking through a communist city that is about to explode into the world changing Solidarity movement. Tom Swick has written a closely observed, wonderfully detailed, ground level view of life in Poland during the critical years of 1980-84. Living with food shortages, dealing with bureaucracy, meeting friends behind the barren corridors of socialist apartment buildings in the rich apartments of their lives. The characters he describes, whether fellow teachers, students, shopkeepers or pilgrims, are compelling, amusing, and complete. Swick conveys in carefully chosen detail the crescendo of events leading up to the declaration of Martial Law and the occupation of the city by tanks and soldiers. A long section on the annual walking pilgrimage to Jasna Góra at the end is a compelling description of the power of tradition, religion, and Polish endurance in adversity.
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UNQUIET DAYS CL by Thomas Swick (Hardcover - August 29, 1991)
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