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Dancing Bears
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Author : Witold Szabłowski
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-26
Dancing Bears written by Witold Szabłowski and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-26 with History categories.
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Witold Szablowski
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Dancing Bears written by Witold Szablowski and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with History categories.
*As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered* “Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review “Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom An incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, by the acclaimed author of How to Feed a Dictator For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule. From the Introduction: “Guys with wacky hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”
The Deliverance Of Dancing Bears
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Author : Elizabeth Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Release Date : 2003
The Deliverance Of Dancing Bears written by Elizabeth Stanley and has been published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Animal rights categories.
A dancing bear in Turkey who dreams of freedom receives her wish when a compassionate peasant buys her.
The Dancing Bear
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Author : Michael Morpurgo
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 1994
The Dancing Bear written by Michael Morpurgo and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Bears categories.
Nothing disturbs the peace of a French village until the arrival of a bear cub. Adopted by the orphaned Roxanne, he quickly becomes part of village life, and the village grows to be famous for its honey. Then a film company arrives to make a video starring Niki, the pop singer, as the Pied Piper.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Hilary Burkard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Dancing Bears written by Hilary Burkard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with Reading categories.
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
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Author : Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum
Release Date : 1991
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear written by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk and has been published by Atheneum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Boris receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Hilary Burkard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Dancing Bears written by Hilary Burkard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Dancing Bears
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Author : Fred Saberhagen
language : en
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Release Date : 2021-10-04
Dancing Bears written by Fred Saberhagen and has been published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-04 with Fiction categories.
The 20th century is new and Russia is on the cusp of revolutionary change. In London, Gregori Lohmatski, an ardent big game hunter and son of a Russian estate owner, is suddenly and urgently summoned home. On the estate two men have been killed by a man-eating bear. Gregori invites John Sherwood, his American hunting companion, to join him in pursuit of the man eating bear. Sherwood is unaware that the Lohmatski men have been rumored to have the ability to change into bears. Events in Russia become more than a bear hunt, as Sherwood and Gregori’s revolutionary minded sister flee across Russia pursued by the police and the attacking were-bear.
Fast Track
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Author : Hilary Burkard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Fast Track written by Hilary Burkard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with categories.
Amy The Dancing Bear
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Author : Carly Simon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Amy The Dancing Bear written by Carly Simon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Bears categories.
Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.